MOTOR DRIVE CIRCUIT

A motor drive circuit that performs PWM driving of an AC motor includes: rectifying circuit that rectifies power from an AC power supply; a DC intermediate circuit that smoothes an output of the rectifying circuit and holds the smoothed output; an inverter circuit that executes a PWM control of a voltage applied to the AC motor based on DC power held in the DC intermediate circuit; and a filter circuit that is inserted between the AC power supply and the rectifying circuit, wherein the filter circuit includes a noise filter that is inserted between the AC power supply and the rectifying circuit and reduces harmonic noise, and a band elimination filter that is arranged at a posterior stage of the noise filter and reduces harmonic noise having a bandwidth, which can be generated by the PWM control.