Valeo Siemens Eautomotive Germany Gmbh

Valeo Eautomotive Germany Gmbh

Karsten Wiedmann

Marco Bohlländer

Markus Reymann

Simon Huettinger

Christian Herold

Timur Werner

Shan Tian

The invention relates to a control device for an inverter which includes three half-bridges each having a first power switching element connected to a first DC voltage potential and a second power switching element connected to a second DC voltage potential. The control device is arranged for driving the power switching elements for converting a DC voltage present between the DC voltage potentials into a polyphase AC current in a normal operating mode and for transferring the inverter from the normal operating mode into a safe operating mode. The control device is further set up to alternately drive the power switching elements in the safe operating mode for switching single-phase active short circuits and for switching two-phase active short circuits.

Control device for an inverter, inverter for a vehicle, vehicle and method of operating an inverter

A control device for an inverter has a DC voltage input and a power unit with three half-bridges each formed by two power switching elements, the control device being arranged to driving the power switching elements in a normal operating mode for converting a DC voltage applied to the DC voltage input into a polyphase AC current provided at an AC current output. The control device is adapted to evaluate a signal state of a signal indicating a disconnection of a DC voltage source from the DC voltage input and to control the power switching elements in dependence on a result of the evaluation for alternately adopting a first switching pattern causing DC braking and a second switching pattern causing freewheeling.

Control device for an inverter, inverter for an asynchronous machine, vehicle and method for operating an inverter

Control unit for controlling an inverter with a plurality of half bridges each having a first switching element connected to a potential of a DC link and a second switching element connected to another potential of the DC link. The control unit provides first signals to the first switching elements such that they are turned off upon receiving a request signal, and second signals to the second switching elements such that they are turned on upon receiving the request signal and to perform a comparison of a measured electric parameter of the inverter with a predefined threshold value. The control unit provides a second signal such that the second switching element controlled by the second signal is turned off for a predefined time span, if a switching criterion comprising a condition that the comparison results in that the measured electric parameter reaches or crosses the threshold value is fulfilled.

Control unit for controlling an inverter, inverter and method for operating an inverter

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Spardorf, Germany

Karsten Wiedmann