Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130141950 | POWER CONVERTER AND INTEGRATED DC CHOKE THEREFOR - A power conversion system and a DC link choke therefore are presented, in which a continuous core structure is provided with first and second legs around which four or more windings are located, with one or more shunt structures providing a magnetic flux path between intermediate portions of the first and second legs. | 06-06-2013 |
20140042817 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BYPASSING CASCADED H-BRIDGE (CHB) POWER CELLS AND POWER SUB CELL FOR MULTILEVEL INVERTER - Bypassing methods and apparatus are presented along with power cells and sub cells for multilevel inverters in which DC current flow into a DC link capacitance is interrupted and a bypass switch is closed across a power cell or sub cell output to selectively bypass a power stage of a multilevel inverter. | 02-13-2014 |
20140265596 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ISLANDING DETECTION FOR GRID TIE CONVERTERS - Methods and apparatus are presented for unintentional islanding detection for grid tie converters in which the phase angle disturbance is introduced by modification of grid side converter switching control signals and a mismatch of reactive power between generation and the grid load is formed upon the occurrence of unintentional islanding, where the applied phase disturbance is determined according to two pre-defined curves to form an equivalent positive feedback at different frequencies to prevent the converter from forming an island at a new stable frequency after the grid is disconnected. | 09-18-2014 |
20140268928 | POWER CELL BYPASS METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTILEVEL INVERTER - Multilevel inverters, power cells and bypass methods are presented in which a power cell switching circuit is selectively disconnected from the power cell output, and a bypass which is closed to connect first and second cell output terminals to selectively bypass a power stage of a multilevel inverter, with an optional AC input switch to selectively disconnect the AC input from the power cell switching circuit during bypass. | 09-18-2014 |
20140268953 | ACTIVE FRONT END POWER CONVERTER WITH BOOST MODE DERATING TO PROTECT FILTER INDUCTOR - Methods and apparatus are presented for controlling a power converter to protect input filter inductors from overheating, in which an active front end (AFE) rectifier is operated in a boost mode to provide a boosted DC voltage at a derated output current value selected according to the DC bus voltage boost amount corresponding to a maximum load condition for which the filter inductors will not overheat. | 09-18-2014 |
20140268954 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTINUOUS AND DISCONTINUOUS ACTIVE RECTIFIER BOOST OPERATION TO INCREASE POWER CONVERTER RATING - Power conversion systems and operating methods are presented in which an active front end rectifier is operated in a boost mode using discontinuous pulse width modulation in a first range of DC bus voltage boost amount, and continuous space vector pulse width modulation is used in a second range, with the ranges being correlated to output derating with respect to filter inductor magnetics in the first range and to rectifier switching loss derating and the second range. | 09-18-2014 |
20150097571 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC GROUND FAULT LOCATION DETERMINATION IN HIGH RESISTANCE GROUNDED MOTOR DRIVE SYSTEM - A PLC or other industrial controller programmed to locate ground faults in a networked high resistance grounded multi-drive system through network communications messaging to automatically place networked motor drives in various operational states to isolate individual drives for ground fault identification testing and selectively identify individual drives as suspected ground fault locations. | 04-09-2015 |
20150098257 | MULTIFUNCTION POWER CONVERTER WITH OPTION FOR INTEGRATED MAGNETICS - Power converter modules and parallel conversion systems are presented in which the modules are provided in a rollable enclosure having AC and DC electrical connections, and an interior including a switching circuit with switching devices individually connected between a corresponding AC node and a corresponding DC node for operation as either a rectifier or an inverter and an internal filter circuit with inductors individually connected between a corresponding AC node of the switching circuit and a corresponding AC electrical connection, with a built-in blower or fan to cool the filter circuit during operation. | 04-09-2015 |