Power supply unit capable of reducing possibility of overcurrent and current shortage

    公开(公告)号:US12119736B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-15

    申请号:US17821454

    申请日:2022-08-22

    摘要: A power supply unit includes a power supply and a converter. The converter performs operation selected from the group consisting of boosting and stepping down of an output voltage of the power supply; and includes a reactor in which n-phase coils are magnetically coupled to each other, n-phase switches, and a control unit. The control unit controls duty cycles of the n-phase switches; monitors a current value flowing through the n-phase coils; and performs phase switching control when the control unit determines that an operation condition described below is satisfied, the phase switching control being control in which the control unit performs phase switching from in phase to out of phase in the case where the n-phase switches are being driven in phase and performs phase switching from out of phase to in phase in the case where the n-phase switches are being driven out of phase.

    Power Conversion System for Reducing DC-Link Capacitor Stress

    公开(公告)号:US20240266972A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-08

    申请号:US18640731

    申请日:2024-04-19

    摘要: A power conversion system includes a first direct current to alternating current (DC-AC) inverter, a second DC-AC inverter, an inverter controller, a direct current (DC)-link circuit connecting the first DC-AC inverter and the second DC-AC inverter, a neutral-point balancer (NPB), an NPB circuit, and an NPB controller. The inverter controller is configured to provide a pulse-width modulation (PWM), signal to the first DC-AC inverter and the second DC-AC inverter. The NPB circuit is configured to reduce low frequency current oscillations in the DC-link circuit by switching between a first state for transferring charge from a positive voltage line to a neutral voltage line, and a second state for transferring charge from the neutral voltage line to a negative voltage line. The NPB controller is configured to control the switching of the NPB circuit and is synchronized with the PWM signal from the inverter controller.

    Battery charging apparatus
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12027865B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-02

    申请号:US18099531

    申请日:2023-01-20

    摘要: A battery charging apparatus includes a bi-directional charger including a first switching circuit connected to an AC terminal, a second switching circuit connected to a battery, and a transformer connected between the first switching circuit and the second switching circuit. The battery charging apparatus also includes a controller configured to switch a leg included in the first switching circuit based on a first carrier wave and a first duty command, configured to switch a leg included in the second switching circuit based on a second carrier wave and a second duty command, configured to adjust a phase of the second carrier wave compared to a phase of the first carrier wave by a phase shift angle according to an active power command, and configured to adjust a phase of the second duty command according to the reactive power command.

    Drive system
    7.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11942875B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-26

    申请号:US17306245

    申请日:2021-05-03

    申请人: DENSO CORPORATION

    摘要: A drive system for a rotating electric machine system includes: a first inverter and a second inverter connected to first and second ends of multi-phase windings respectively; a selection unit performing selection between a first setting representing that the first inverter is set to a switch drive inverter and the second inverter is set to a neutral-point drive inverter and a second setting representing that the second inverter is set to the switch drive inverter and the first inverter is set to the neutral-point drive inverter; and a drive control unit performing a switch drive task of performing on-off driving of the upper and lower arm switches of the switch drive inverter to thereby input/output power to/from the rotating electrical machine; and a neutral-point drive task of maintaining at least one of the upper and lower arm switches of the neural-point drive inverter in an on state.

    Current-mode control for multistage interleaved resonant converters

    公开(公告)号:US11929671B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-12

    申请号:US17646944

    申请日:2022-01-04

    发明人: Roman Mazgut

    IPC分类号: H02M3/00 H02M1/00 H02M3/335

    摘要: Methods for operating an interleaved resonant power converter, and systems and apparatuses for power conversion. The method includes generating a first pair of complementary signals to drive a first stage of the interleaved resonant power converter. The method also includes generating a second pair of complementary signals to drive a second stage of the interleaved resonant power converter. The method further includes generating a current-mode control signal based on a current sense signal of the first stage. The method also includes adjusting a switching frequency of the first pair of complementary signals based on the current-mode control signal. The method further includes adjusting a switching frequency of the second pair of complementary signals to match the switching frequency of the first pair of complementary signals.

    ISOLATED MULTI-PHASE DC/DC CONVERTER WITH REDUCED QUANTITY OF BLOCKING CAPACITORS

    公开(公告)号:US20240079963A9

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-07

    申请号:US17812360

    申请日:2022-07-13

    IPC分类号: H02M3/335 H02M1/00 H02M1/40

    摘要: The present disclosure provides an isolated multi-phase DC/DC converter with a reduced quantity of blocking capacitors. In one aspect, the converter includes a multi-phase transformer having a primary circuit and a secondary circuit magnetically coupled to the primary circuit, the primary circuit having a first quantity of terminals, and the secondary circuit having a second quantity of terminals; a third quantity of blocking capacitors, each being electrically connected in series to a respective one of the terminals of the primary circuit; and a fourth quantity of blocking capacitors, each being electrically connected in series to a respective one of the terminals of the secondary circuit. The third quantity is one less than the first quantity. The fourth quantity is one less than the second quantity.

    Power conversion device
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11909307B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-20

    申请号:US17615850

    申请日:2019-06-12

    IPC分类号: H02M1/32 H02M1/00 H02M7/217

    摘要: A power conversion device includes a power converter including a plurality of arms and a control device to control voltages of a plurality of sub modules by PWM control using a carrier signal for each sub module. The sub module includes a plurality of switching elements, a power storage element, a pair of output terminals, and a bypass switch. When the control device detects failure of a sub module in an arm, it performs stop processing for stopping a switching operation of the plurality of switching elements included in at least one sub module of the plurality of sub modules in the arm and has the sub module failure of which was detected bypassed. After the control device performs the stop processing, it equalizes intervals among phases of carrier signals of a plurality of normal sub modules in the arm caused by failure of the sub module.