Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110261589 | POWER CONVERTER WITH ELECTRICAL SWITCHING ELEMENT - A power converter is preferably mounted in a vehicle. The converter has a power converting unit including an electrical switching element electrically switched on and off selectively in response to a duty ratio of PWM (pulse-width modulation) signal given to the switching element. The converter further has a controller including a drive unit that generates the PWM signal, in addition to a controlling unit and a limiting unit. The controlling unit controls the duty ratio of the PWM signal such that a voltage inputted to the power converter is converted to a voltage to be outputted depending on the duty ratio. The limiting unit limits at least one of a time change amount of the duty ratio of the PWM signal and a maximum duty ratio of the PWM signal. | 10-27-2011 |
20130300397 | POWER CONVERTER - In a power converter, a reference signal generator generates a reference signal with a predetermined period. A current detector detects a current flowing in the converter. When a value of the detected current is larger than a value of a predetermined current command, a reset signal generator generates a reset signal. A driving unit drives a switch. The switch is turned on, and subsequently is turned off: (i) in synchronization with the reference signal when the reset signal is not outputted before the reference signal is outputted; and (ii) in synchronization with the reset signal when the reset signal is outputted before the reference signal is outputted. However, the switch is turned off in synchronization with the reset signal during a predetermined time including a first predetermined time before an output timing of the reference signal and a second predetermined time after the output timing of the reference signal. | 11-14-2013 |
20140062558 | CURRENT MODE CONTROLLED POWER CONVERTER - A current mode controlled power converter controllable in a digitally processing current mode even during an on time. In the power converter, each control period based on a reference signal includes a slope calculation period in which a slope compensation signal for the control period is calculated by a slope compensation unit. During each slope calculation period, the slope compensation unit negates the slope compensation signal calculated previous to the control period including the slope calculation period, and a reset signal generation unit compares a current detection signal detected by a current detection unit with a current instruction set to an error signal generated by an error signal generation unit to generate a reset signal. | 03-06-2014 |
20140198537 | POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS - A power conversion apparatus includes a switch circuit which activates switching elements on the basis of a control signal, a feedback means which performs feedback control, a signal output means which outputs the control signal on the basis of a control variable of the feedback control, and a mode switching means which controls switching operation of the switch circuit by switching an operation mode between a normal mode and an intermittent mode in which the number of operations is less than that in the normal mode. The mode switching means changes timing of switching from the normal mode to the intermittent mode, on the basis of either or both of a first detection value which is an input value inputted to the switch circuit and a second detection value which is an output value outputted from the switch circuit. | 07-17-2014 |
20140307480 | ELECTRIC POWER CONVERSION DEVICE - An electric power conversion device has a transformer, a DC-AC conversion circuit, an AC-DC conversion circuit and a control circuit. The control circuit calculates an input current instruction value Iref based on a difference value ΔV between an output voltage Vout of the AC-DC conversion circuit and an output voltage instruction value Vref. A comparator compares an input current Iin of the DC-AC conversion circuit with the value Iref. The DC-AC conversion circuit is controlled by the comparison result of the comparator. The control circuit correctly determines an occurrence of an abnormality state of the electric power conversion device based on the operation state of the comparator, the difference value ΔV between the output voltage Vout of the AC-DC conversion circuit and the output voltage instruction value Vref, and the input voltage Vin of the DC-AC conversion circuit without using any output current of the AC-DC conversion circuit. | 10-16-2014 |
20140347767 | POWER CONVERTER WITH SWITCHING ELEMENT - In a power converter, a driver that drives, according to a control signal, a switching element of a switch circuit for converting input power to output power. The control signal represents how to drive the switching element. A controller outputs the control signal to the driver for controlling the driver. A measuring unit measures a value of input power input to the switch circuit. A protection determining unit determines, based on the measured value of the input power, whether there is a need to protect the power converter. The protection determining unit outputs a stop control signal to at least one of the driver and the controller based on a result of the determination of whether there is a need to protect the power converter. The stop control signal represents whether to forcibly stop drive of the switching element. | 11-27-2014 |
20150280591 | POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS - A power conversion apparatus for converting AC power supplied from an AC power source to DC power includes an AC-DC conversion circuit connected with the AC power source at an input end thereof for converting the AC power to DC power, a DC-DC conversion circuit connected with an output end of the AC-DC conversion circuit at an input end thereof for converting DC voltage level of the DC power generated by the AC-DC conversion circuit, a smoothing capacitor parallel connected to the output end of the AC-DC conversion circuit and the input end of the DC-DC conversion circuit, a DC link voltage detector for detecting a voltage of the smoothing capacitor as a DC link voltage, and a control unit for controlling operation of the DC-DC conversion circuit. The control unit suppresses output power of the DC-DC conversion circuit if the DC link voltage is | 10-01-2015 |
20160094134 | POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS - Power conversion apparatus converts input voltage and supplies output voltage to the electric load. The apparatus includes a semiconductor switch switches between open and closed states to regulate voltage control current for controlling output voltage, a first voltage detection section detects remote voltage being applied to the electric load as output voltage, a second voltage detection section detects a local voltage being applied to the output terminal as output voltage, a target current calculation section calculates target current which is the voltage control current target value, based on voltage deviation between target voltage which is the output voltage target value and either remote voltage or local voltage, and a switch control section controls the semiconductor switch so voltage control current becomes target current, to regulate output voltage to target voltage. The target current calculation section calculates the target current by using one of the remote or local voltage corresponds to a smaller target current. | 03-31-2016 |