Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120230067 | POWER CONVERTER - This current converter is formed to short-circuit input-side terminals of a plurality of power conversion portions, to parallelly connect output-side terminals of the plurality of power conversion portions with each other and to couple inductors provided on the plurality of power conversion portions respectively with each other, to be capable of performing an operation of moving currents between windings of the coupled inductors on the basis of ON-/OFF-states of pluralities of one-way switches. | 09-13-2012 |
20130088904 | ALTERNATING-CURRENT/DIRECT-CURRENT CONVERTER - An alternating-current/direct-current converter includes a rectifier, a reactor, a capacitor, and a switching rectifier. The rectifier is configured to rectify alternating-current voltage output from an alternating-current power source, thereby converting the alternating-current voltage into direct-current voltage, and to output the direct-current voltage. The capacitor includes terminals. The switching rectifier is coupled to the AC power source and switchable to output the direct-current voltage to the capacitor. | 04-11-2013 |
20130229835 | POWER CONVERTING APPARATUS - A power converting apparatus according to an embodiment includes a controller that controls a power converter. The controller includes a first signal generator which generates switch drive signals for AC-to-DC conversion, a second signal generator which generates switch drive signals for DC-to-AC conversion, and a drive signal generator which generates, in accordance with the switch drive signals for AC-to-DC conversion and the switch drive signals for DC-to-AC conversion, switch drive signals for controlling the power converter. The first signal generator and the second signal generator operate in synchronization with each other. | 09-05-2013 |
20130229843 | CURRENT-SOURCE POWER CONVERTING APPARATUS - A current-source power converting apparatus according to an embodiment includes an inverter and a drive controller. The inverter includes, in every output phase, a plurality of switching elements that are serially connected between the positive pole and the negative pole of a direct current source. The drive controller controls the inverter in accordance with a current command in an output mode of controlling the switching elements of different output phases for supplying current between the output phases and a short circuit mode of controlling the switching elements of the same output phase. An output phase in which the drive controller executes the short circuit mode is an output phase whose phase voltage or phase current has the minimum absolute value. | 09-05-2013 |
20130336023 | POWER CONVERSION DEVICE - A power conversion device according to embodiments includes a plurality of switch groups, a plurality of inductors, and a snubber circuit. The switch groups are respectively provided for input phases and each of the switch groups has a plurality of one-way switches that connects the corresponding input phase and output phases. The plurality of inductors are respectively connected between the input phases and the switch groups, and are coupled to one another so that current flowing through the one-way switch of one switch group moves to and continues to flow through the turned-on one-way switch of the other switch group when the one-way switch of the one switch group is turned off. The snubber circuit clamps a voltage based on the maximum voltage occurring on the plurality of inductors to a predetermined value. | 12-19-2013 |
20140126251 | CURRENT-SOURCE POWER CONVERTING APPARATUS - A current-source power converting apparatus includes: a converter unit configured to convert an AC or DC voltage input from a power supply into a predetermined DC voltage; an inverter unit configured to convert a DC voltage supplied from the converter unit via a DC reactor into an AC voltage and output the AC voltage; and a controller configured to control the inverter unit at a modulation factor in correspondence with a step up/step down ratio based on a ratio of an output voltage from the inverter unit to an input voltage from the power supply. | 05-08-2014 |
20150097505 | CURRENT SOURCE INVERTER DEVICE - A current source inverter device according to an embodiment includes an inverter that supplies AC power to a number n (integer of 1 or greater) of AC motors each having a number m (integer of 2 or greater) of windings per phase; and a controller that controls the inverter and AC motor. The inverter includes a switching unit, in which a number n×m+1 of switching elements per phase are connected in series, and a number n×m of nodes among the switching elements are respectively connected with a number n×m of different windings with the same phase among the windings of the number n of the AC motors. The controller includes a mode selector that selects at least one winding as a supply target of the AC power from the number n×m of the windings based on a rotation speed of the AC motor. | 04-09-2015 |
20150146462 | CURRENT SOURCE POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS AND CURRENT SOURCE POWER CONVERSION METHOD - When first drive signals are driving signals for applying a short-circuit mode for turning on a plurality of switching elements of the same output phase, the current source power conversion apparatus according to one embodiment generates second drive signals for applying the short-circuit mode to an output phase having the smallest absolute value of a phase voltage, and switches the first drive signals to the second drive signals. | 05-28-2015 |