Washing Machines
The latest washing machines use inverter control for both washing and spin-drying. Inverter control helps reduce wash/spin noise and vibration and enables a washing machine to adjust the amount of water and motor torque to suit the washload. IGBTs are used for motor drive, and microcontrollers for overall control. Additionally, an intelligent power device (IPD) is used to drive a water circulating pump of a spin dryer. Power factor correction (PFC) ICs or IGBTs are used in the power supply circuit to keep harmonics in the input current below the IEC limit.
Block Diagram
Product Introduction
- Microcontrollers
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- MCUs for motor control
- MCUs for operation panel control
- General-Purpose Linear ICs
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- Dryer fan
- Motor controllers / Driver
- IPDs
- Circulating pump
- Motor controller / Driver
- IPDs
- PFC Control
- PFC(IC)
- Dryer fan
- Optical Semiconductor Devices
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- Drain valve motor
- Photocoupler
- Water Supply Valve
- Photocoupler
- Softener Supply Valve
- Photocoupler
- Bath Water Pump
- Photocoupler
- Dryer Heater
- Photocoupler
- IGBT / MOSFET Driver
- Photocouplers
- Drain valve motor
- Sensors
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- Lid open / close detection
- Magnetic Sensors
- Lid open / close detection
- Transistors
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- Inverter Control Circuit
- IGBT
- PFC Circuit
- IGBTs
- Inverter Control Circuit
- Diodes
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- General-Purpose Surge Absorption and Circuit Protection
- Zener Diodes
- ESD Protection Diodes
- Switching Diodes
- Schottky Barrier Diodes
- General-Purpose Surge Absorption and Circuit Protection
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