Lg Electronics Inc.

Jeongeon Oh

Sanghyeon Kim

Yonghwa Lee

Donggeun Lee

Songhee Yang

Seungwoo Chae

Kyeongtae Kim

Phillsik Gong

Taeyoung Park

Yongsoo Cho

The present disclosure discloses a power transforming apparatus capable of reducing a stress of a converter switch during a PFC operation, an operation method thereof, and an air conditioner including the same. To this end, the power transforming apparatus according to the present disclosure may determine the number of converters for performing the PFC operation based on a magnitude of input power and a speed of the motor. Furthermore, the PFC operation may be performed using only one converter when determining a low-load in order to improve efficiency. In addition, a target converter channel may be selected using a random function or determined to be changed using a previous operation history without specifying a target converter channel in advance at an initial stage of the PFC operation so as not to add a stress to any one converter switch.

Power transforming apparatus and air conditioner including the same

The present disclosure relates to a motor driving apparatus and an air conditioner including the same. The motor driving apparatus and the air conditioner including the same according to an embodiment of the present disclosure include: a switching device disposed between an inverter and a motor; and a controller, which in response to windings of the motor being switched from a first connection to a second connection, controls an operating frequency of the motor to be less than or equal to a first frequency, and in response to the windings of the motor being switched from the second connection to the first connection, controls an operating frequency of the motor to be less than or equal to a second frequency which is less than the first frequency. Accordingly, burnout of the switching device for switching connection of the motor windings may be prevented.

Motor driving apparatus and air conditioner including the same

The present disclosure discloses a power transforming apparatus capable of reducing a stress of a converter switch during a PFC operation, an operation method thereof, and an air conditioner including the same. To this end, the power transforming apparatus according to the present disclosure may determine the number of converters for performing a PFC operation based on a magnitude of input power and a speed of the motor. Furthermore, target converter channels are arbitrarily selected using a random function at an initial stage of a PFC operation so as not to add a stress to a switch device of any one converter. In addition, in order to disperse a stress to all switches, phases are individually controlled to perform switching operations while changing converters that match the number of converters for performing a PFC operation in a preset cycle, for example, whenever a zero-crossing is detected.

The present disclosure relates to a motor driving apparatus and an air conditioner including the same. The motor driving apparatus and the air conditioner including the same according to an embodiment of the present disclosure include: a switching device disposed between an inverter and a motor, wherein while windings of the motor are connected in a first connection, an output current at a first level is output from the inverter, and while the windings of the motor are connected in a second connection, the output current at the first level is output from the inverter, such that it is possible to determine whether the switching device for switching connection of the motor is abnormal.

A motor driving device and an air conditioner having the same of the present disclosure limits the switching of a winding switching device when there is a possibility that the winding switching device is deteriorated, in order to increase the life of winding switching device of a motor and prevent malfunction.

Motor driving device and air conditioner including the same

Provided are a motor control device and a method for controlling a motor control device. A switching frequency is varied with respect to a control sampling for controlling an inverter, whereby controlling is performed by securing a required control sampling according to a motor speed.

Motor control device and method for controlling motor control device

Provided are a motor control device and a method for controlling a motor control device. Harmonics of an input current may be reduced by adjusting an output of an inverter.

The power conversion device may include a rectification unit, a boost converter for boosting power rectified from the rectification unit, a dc-end capacitor connected to an output end of the boost converter, an inductor current detection unit for detecting an inductor current flowing in an inductor within the boost converter, a dc-end voltage detection unit for detecting voltages of both ends of the dc-end capacitor, and a control unit for controlling the boost converter. The control unit may generate and output a converter switching control signal by performing proportional resonant control for a duty command value of a switching element within the boost converter, based on the detected inductor current and dc-end voltage. Therefore, a harmonic current component flowing through a dc-end capacitor induced by a ripple component of an input voltage may be reduced.

Power conversion device having a control unit that outputs based on detected inductor current

The present invention relates to a power conversion device and an air conditioner comprising the same. The power conversion device may include: an interleaved boost converter; a dc terminal capacitor; a load; and a controller for controlling the interleaved boost converter, wherein the controller controls the phase difference between a first boost converter and second boost converter of the interleaved boost converter so that the phase difference is a first phase difference in a first mode, and if a current ripple flowing in the dc terminal capacitor is a predetermined value or greater, the controller enters a second mode and controls the phase difference between the first boost converter and second boost converter so that the phase difference varies. Accordingly, the ripple current flowing into a capacitor disposed at the output terminal of an interleaved boost converter can be reduced.

Power conversion device and air conditioner comprising same

A circuit and a system may drive switching modules. The driving circuit and system are capable of controlling a detection level of a protection voltage of a switching module, by controlling a voltage of a detection circuit for detecting the protection voltage. This may be done based on control of a variable resistance.

Circuit and system for driving switching modules

Provided are a power converting system and a power converting apparatus, which include an input unit that receives a direct current (DC) voltage from an external power source, a conversion unit including a plurality of switching circuits that convert the input DC voltage into a multi-phase AC voltage, a resonant unit including a single resonant inductor connected to each of the plurality of switching circuits, and an output unit that rectifies each phase of the multi-phase AC voltage which has been converted in the plurality of switching circuits and outputs a single DC voltage.

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