Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Shinichiro Oikawa

Satoshi Ojika

Tomokazu Sakashita

Atsushi Matsuda

Toshio Okamura

N (n is a natural number) power converters operate in accordance with a drive signal to generate a power to be supplied to a load. Multi-redundant A/D converters convert an analog detection value from the power converters into digital values. First and second controllers operate in parallel and each generate a drive signal of the power converters using the digital values from the A/D converters. A system selector selects one controller in accordance with an abnormality detection result of the first and second controllers. Each of n output selectors receives the drive signals from both of the first and second controllers and outputs the drive signal from the one controller selected by the system selector to the power converters.

Power conversion device

An operation processing unit computes an amount of operation for adjusting electric power supplied to a load. A signal generator computes, based on an amount of operation, the number of switch elements to be turned on among switch elements and a duty ratio to be set for the number of switch elements to be turned on and generates, based on the determined number of switch elements and duty ratio, a signal for driving at least one of the switch elements. The signal generator includes a correction value operation unit that obtains a correction value based on a difference of an on-pulse width between a shunt current flowing through a corresponding one of the switch elements and a shunt drive signal for driving the corresponding one switch element, and a corrector that corrects, based on the correction value, an amount of operation output from the operation processing unit.

Power controller

A power controller includes: a plurality of switching elements provided in one-to-one correspondence with a plurality of power supplies, and each of which switches on or off to switch between supplying and stopping supplying a load with electric power from a corresponding one of the plurality of power supplies; a processing unit which computes an operation amount for adjusting an amount of the electric power supplied to the load; and a signal generator which determines, for each control, a switching-element count indicating a total number of switching elements to be turned on among the plurality of switching elements, and a duty ratio of the switching-element count, based on the operation amount, and generates a drive signal for driving the plurality of switching elements successively, based on the switching-element count and the duty ratio.

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Shinichiro Oikawa