Denso Corporation

Ryoya Kazaoka

Yusuke Shindo

Ken Toshiyuki

Shunichi Kubo

A power conversion apparatus includes a power converter configured to convert DC power supplied from a battery into AC power by switching control, and is configured to supply the AC power from the power converter to a rotary electric machine having windings. Further, the power conversion apparatus includes a control unit that performs temperature-increase control of the battery by performing switching control of upper arm switches and lower arm switches so that a current flows to the battery via the power converter and the windings. In the temperature-increase control while the vehicle is stopped, the control unit controls the current so that a current value of the rotary electric machine gradually increases within a current control range in which a torque of the rotary electric machine is less than an upper limit torque.

Power conversion apparatus

A power converter has a capacitor and a power conversion unit having a series-connected unit composed of an upper arm side switching element and a lower arm side switching element. The capacitor is connected in parallel with the serios connection unit. The power conversion unit supplies electric power to a motor. A controller for the power conversion unit has a frequency characteristics estimation part estimating frequency characteristics of a battery current of the battery when a current is flowing between the power convertor and the battery, a ripple current setting part determining a ripple frequency of a ripple current contained in the battery current based on the frequency characteristics of the battery current, and a control part performing a switching control of the switching elements based on the ripple frequency in order to generate the ripple current.

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Kariya, Japan

Ryoya Kazaoka