Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Anton Pfauser

Marc Hiller

Manfred Bruckmann

Tomas Greif

Elfriede Schickert

Brigitte Hetzel

Gudrun Popp

Alois Wald

A current converter apparatus includes a multi-phase current converter having current-converter modules for each phase that are electrically connected to one another and arranged in a current-converter cabinet. Each current-converter module has at least one semiconductor component arranged on a heat sink and includes just two semiconductor components connected to each other and connected to be controlled by a control component. The current-converter modules in the current-converter cabinet are arranged so that the current-converter modules of each current-converter phase form a horizontal row of modules arranged one beside the other and the rows are arranged vertically one above the other.

Current converter apparatus having a multi-phase current converter

A modular converter cabinet system of a converter having phase modules with upper and lower converter valves, wherein each converter valve has at least two converter cells and a branch inductor connected in series, includes a first valve cabinet, a second valve cabinet, and an inductor cabinet. The first and second valve cabinets each have several vertically spaced valve levels and several honeycomb cells arranged next to one another. The inductor cabinet has several vertically spaced phase levels. Two valve levels of at least one of the first and second valve cabinets are electrically connected to a respective phase level of the inductor cabinet that is arranged next to the at least one valve cabinet. A converter cabinet system which can be individually adapted to different converter output voltages in a simple manner is thus obtained.

Modular converter cabinet system

A low-inductive busbar arrangement for a three-point phase module of a polyphase three-point power converter is provided. At least one turn-off semiconductor switched being provided for each switch of this three-point phase module and at least one diode being provided for each of the two neutral point diodes. Connection busbars of this three-point-phase module are distributed between three busbar planes of the low-inductive busbar arrangement, which are mutually electrically insulated from one another in each case with insulation layer and are arranged in a plan-parallel manner. A low-inductive busbar arrangement for a three-point phase module is thus obtained which has three busbar planes, irrespective of the series connection number.

Provision of a low-inductive rail for three-point phase module

A self-commutated power converter of a voltage-impressing converter having n high-power modules is described. These high-power modules are joined phasewise to a phase heat sink, respectively, in a detachable manner, and joined, one over another, to a partition in such a manner that their cooling fins protrude through openings of this partition into a ventilation space and each run horizontally, an air-discharge duct being arranged in the ventilation space, the air-discharge duct being designed in such a manner that the cooling air of the ventilation space flows laterally, in each case on both sides of the phase heat sinks, between the cooling fins into the air-discharge duct. Thus, a self-commutated power converter of a voltage-impressing converter is obtained whose size, weight and cost are considerably reduced compared to a power converter having a conventional design, and whose high-power modules are each fully utilized in terms of capacity.

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Pommersfelden, Germany

Anton Pfauser