Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated

Rockwell Technologies, Inc.

Allen-bradley Company, LLC

Bin Wu

Congwei Liu

Navid R. Zargari

Yuan Xiao

Steven Carmen Rizzo

Navid Reza Zargari

Navid RezA Zargari

Zhongyuan Cheng

Lixiang Wei

Mehdi Narimani

Manish Pande

Richard Lukaszewski

Zhong Y Cheng

Thomas Arthur Nondahl

Jingbo Liu

Jingya Dai

David Dewei Xu

Ye Zhang

Ahmed Hisham Abuelnaga

Daming Ma

Vijay Khatri

Rangarajan M Tallam

Bruce W Weiss

Garron Koch Morris

Neil Gollhardt

Lee A Gettelfinger

Kevin Louis Baumann

Stephen E Denning

William E Brumsickle

Angelo R Bortolus

Catalin Florin Gemanaru

Robert Wright Reese

Yongqiang Lang

Sarah Badawi

Zhituo Ni

Robert N Bickford

Jahangir Afsharian

James A Ulrich

Marius G Chis

Jason Cornelius Wiseman

Kai Tian

Ghodratollah Esmaeili Rineh

Hua Zhou

Jiacheng Wang

Dewei Xu

Weiqian Hu

Weixing Feng

Frank A DeWinter

Lixang Wei

Kevin Baumann

George Zhongyuan Cheng

A component includes a power suspension module that suspends providing power from a DC source to a DC link capacitor and from the capacitor to a load. A bleeding resistor is connected in parallel with the capacitor and an auxiliary power supply draws power from the capacitor. The component includes a measurement module that measures a first, second and third capacitor voltage at a first, second, time, and third time in response suspending power between the DC source and the load. The component includes a capacitance module that uses bleeding resistor resistance, the voltages and the times to determine a current capacitance of the capacitor, a capacitance comparison module that compares the current capacitance with an initial capacitance of the capacitor, and an alert module that sends an alert in response to determining that a difference between the current capacitance and the initial capacitance is above a capacitance degradation threshold.

Measuring DC link capacitance in power conversion systems

Power conversion systems and methods to control a multiphase multilevel regenerative power converter with multilevel phase circuits that individually include multiple regenerative power stages with respective power stage outputs connected in series, each of the multiple regenerative power stages comprising a DC link circuit a switching rectifier coupled between a respective transformer secondary circuit and the DC link circuit, and a switching inverter coupled between the DC link circuit and the respective power stage output, including a controller that provides inverter switching control signals to control the respective switching inverters, provides rectifier switching control signals to control the respective switching rectifiers, and controls a non-zero phase relationship between the rectifier switching control signals of the respective switching rectifiers.

Filter and AFE power cell phase control

A system is provided for driving multiple motors. The system includes multiple cascaded H-bridge (CHB) power inverters, a DC bus, and multiple neutral point converter/inverters. Each of the multiple CHB power inverters is connected to a respective motor at one or more AC terminals of the CHB power inverter. Each of the multiple CHB power inverters includes one or more DC terminals configured to receive DC power. Each of the multiple neutral point converter/inverters is connected to a respective CHB power inverter at one or more neutral terminals of the respective CHB power inverter and connected to the DC bus.

Systems and methods of multi-motor regenerative drive

For power converter pre-charge with line synchronization, a method magnetizes a power transformer of a power converter with a supply voltage from a variable voltage variable frequency supply. The method pre-charges power cells of the power converter fed from the power transformer to a specified voltage with the supply voltage. The method further modifies a primary amplitude, a primary phase, and a primary frequency of a primary winding of the power converter with the supply voltage to match a main amplitude, a main phase, and a main frequency of a main voltage of a main power source. In response to matching the primary amplitude, the primary phase, and the primary frequency to the main amplitude, the main phase, and the main frequency, the method connects the main power source to the power transformer.

Power converter pre-charge with line synchronization

A regenerative power conversion system with a phase shift transformer having a primary circuit and N secondary sets of M secondary circuits, a controller synchronizes rectifier switching control signals of individual regenerative power stages to a phase angle of a corresponding one of the secondary circuits based on a feedback signal of the primary circuit during regenerative operation of the power conversion system.

Regenerative medium voltage drive (Cascaded H Bridge) with reduced number of sensors

A power conversion system and controller configured to generate a real average DC current reference based on a DC bus voltage of a DC link circuit and a DC bus voltage setpoint, generate real and reactive ripple current references based on the DC bus voltage of the DC link circuit and a ripple angle of the DC link circuit, and generate rectifier switching control signals to operate rectifier switching devices based on the real average DC current reference and the real and reactive ripple current references.

Capacitor size reduction and lifetime extension for cascaded H-bridge drives

For a power supply with a reduced number of semiconductor devices, a transformer receives a three-phase primary voltage and steps the three-phase primary voltage up or down to a secondary voltage with a plurality of secondary winding sets to a plurality of first phase voltages, a plurality of second phase voltages, and a plurality of third phase voltages. A plurality of power cell sets each include a plurality of power cells cascaded connected. Each power cell comprises a rectifier and an inverter. The rectifier includes two first active switches that are serially connected and receive a phase voltage at a first switch midpoint, two second active switches that are serially connected and receive another phase voltage at a second switch midpoint, and two capacitors that are serially connected and receive another phase voltage at a capacitor midpoint between the capacitors.

Regenerative cascaded H bridge power supply

For a power supply with a reduced number of semiconductor devices, a phase shifting transformer receives a three-phase primary voltage and steps the three-phase primary voltage one of up and down to a secondary voltage with a plurality of secondary winding sets. There is phase shifting between different secondary winding sets. A plurality of power cell sets each comprise a plurality of power cells cascaded connected, and each power cell receives one of a single phase and a three-phase voltage of a distinct secondary winding set of the phase shifting transformer. Each power cell comprises no more than eight power semiconductor devices organized as a rectifier and an inverter. Each power semiconductor device is one of a diode and an active switch. Each power cell set generates one phase of a three-phase alternating current output.

Reduced semiconductor device power cell voltage drive

Disclosed examples include apparatus to couple a motor drive to a motor, including a cable with a first end coupled with an output of a motor drive, a second end coupled with a motor, a plurality of conductors to convey an output signal of the motor drive between the first and second ends to drive the motor, and a plurality of shields, with a conductive junction to couple tap points of at least two of the shields together. Resistors can be used to connect the tap points to the conductive junction to provide an impedance in series with the corresponding shield to reduce voltage stress to the motor or the cable. In certain examples, the shields include a semiconductor material to provide an impedance between the first end and the conductive junction to reduce voltage stress to the motor or the cable.

Apparatus for reduced voltage stress on AC motors and cables

Motor drive power conversion systems are provided including a rectifier and a switching inverter, wherein the switching devices of the rectifier, the inverter and/or of a DC/DC converter are silicon carbide switches, such as silicon carbide MOSFETs. Driver circuits are provided for providing bipolar gate drive signals to the silicon carbide MOSFETs, including providing negative gate-source voltage for controlling the off state of enhancement mode low side drivers and positive gate-source voltage for controlling the off state of enhancement mode high side drivers.

Motor drive with silicon carbide MOSFET switches

Multilevel power converters, power cells and methods are presented for selectively bypassing a power stage of a multilevel inverter circuit, in which a single relay or contactor includes first and second normally closed output control contacts coupled between a given power cell switching circuit and the given power cell output, along with a normally open bypass contact coupled across the power stage output, with a local or central controller energizing the coil of the relay or contactor of a given cell to bypass that cell.

Method and apparatus for bypassing Cascaded H-Bridge (CHB) power cells and power sub cell for multilevel inverter

Disclosed examples include methods, power converters and damping circuits to control damping of an input filter circuit, in which a low-voltage secondary winding is wound around a common core with a primary winding connected between an AC input and a rectifier input of the converter, where the secondary winding is coupled in a series circuit with a damping resistor and a switch, and a controller selectively closes the switch with a controlled on-time at system power up and/or in response to detection of oscillation or transients in the power converter.

Motor drive filter damping

Method and apparatus for bypassing cascaded h-bridge (CHB) power cells and power sub cell for multilevel inverter

For power conversion, a power conversion system includes a plurality of power converters and a phase shifting transformer. The phase shifting transformer includes 3-phase primary windings, a core and a plurality of m secondary winding groups. Each of the secondary winding groups includes n secondary windings in electromagnetic communication with a corresponding primary winding and feeding the plurality of power converters. Phase angle sets of the secondary winding groups are all different with a non-zero secondary winding phase shift between any two secondary winding groups.

Power conversion system

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Navid RezA Zargari