Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Yoshihiro Takeshima

Satoshi Murakami

Masaki Yamada

Hiroyasu Iwabuki

Nobuhiro Kihara

Ryota Kondo

Akira Nakagawa

Kohei Onda

Mai Nakada

Yoshiaki Ishiguro

Yujiro Nakada

Noriyuki Wada

Masahiro Iezawa

Kenta Fujii

Satoshi Ishibashi

Takuto Yano

Yuta Komatsu

Tatsuya Kitamura

Mitsuyasu Kunihiro

Yuuya Tanaka

Ryo Shinohara

Mai Uenaka

Hideyuki Sotome

Hideki Sugita

Akinu Nakabayashi

Naoya Abe

Takaya Muto

Kazuhiro Fujioka

Makoto Akashi

Yukiko Nakanishi

Provided is a power conversion device with which a region in which an electronic component is mountable in a first printed wiring board of a first substrate can be enlarged. The power conversion device includes a power module installing member, a power module, a bus bar assembly, a first substrate provided on the bus bar assembly, and a second substrate provided on the bus bar assembly. The first substrate includes a first printed wiring board, and a signal terminal connector and a first board-to-board connection connector which are each provided on the first printed wiring board. The second substrate includes a second printed wiring board and a second board-to-board connection connector provided on the second printed wiring board. The signal terminal connector is connected to a signal terminal of the power module. The first board-to-board connection connector and the second board-to-board connection connector are connected to each other.

Power conversion device including substrates with connectors

A power conversion device and a motor system according to the present disclosure comprises an inverter circuit which is connected to a motor, a switch circuit, and a control circuit. The power conversion device and the motor system are characterized in that the inverter circuit and the switch circuit are capable of two-level operation and three-level operation, and the control circuit switches between the two-level operation and the three-level operation on the basis of the motor torque command and the rotational speed command. As a result, it is possible to reduce the total loss in the power conversion device and the motor.

Power conversion device and motor system

An inverter is provided for driving a motor. A first capacitor, and a second capacitor including capacitors connected in series, are connected in parallel to a DC power supply. A switch circuit having switching elements is connected between the inverter and the second capacitor. A control circuit is provided for controlling the inverter and the switch circuit. The control circuit performs control to switch the switch circuit so as to supply current from the second capacitor to the inverter during 3-level operation, and supply current from both of the first capacitor and the second capacitor to the inverter during 2-level operation.

Power conversion device

A magnetically coupled reactor and a DC/DC converter are provided between a DC power supply and an inverter. A first smoothing capacitor is provided between the DC power supply and the coupled reactor. A second smoothing capacitor is provided between the DC/DC converter and the inverter. A controller is provided in order to control switching operations of the inverter and the DC/DC converter. The controller causes semiconductor switching elements composing upper and lower arms of the DC/DC converter to perform complementary operations so as to be alternately turned on/off, and causes left and right legs to operate with their switching phases shifted from each other, thereby electric charges stored in both smoothing capacitors are discharged by energy loss in the coupled reactor and the DC/DC converter.

Power conversion device with controller to discharge smoothing capacitors

A power conversion device including: a power conversion unit which is connected to two DC power supplies and performs power conversion; and a control unit which calculates a manipulated variable for controlling output voltage of the power conversion unit, wherein the manipulated variable for control is calculated on the basis of a voltage detection value on the primary side or the secondary side of the power conversion unit and a predetermined fixed value.

DC-DC power conversion device having battery control

A power conversion device includes a first switching unit connected between a DC power supply and an inverter circuit, a resonant circuit connected to the input of the inverter circuit and formed by connecting a capacitor, a reactor, and a second switching unit, and a control unit, wherein, during a resonant operation period in which the first switching unit is controlled to be off and the second switching unit is controlled to be on, the control unit controls the inverter circuit to shift from a mode in which current flows back through one of upper and lower arms of the inverter circuit to a mode in which current flows back through the other arm, and provides a period in which the upper and lower arms for every phase of the inverter circuit are turned on simultaneously.

Power conversion device and electric motor drive device using same

[Technical Problem] In a power conversion device for stepping up or stepping down the input voltage, when voltage converter become out of order, it is not possible to specify an IGBT element and a current sensor, which is in an extraordinary fault condition. [Solution to Problem] The power conversion device is configured to detect a voltage value of a smoothing condenser, connected in parallel to a load, where the load is to be connected to the power conversion device; detects, by a first current sensor, a current which flows through switching elements in a plurality of voltage converter; decides an abnormality of a switching element, by switching the switching element one by one; specifies the abnormality of the switching element; and specifies that the first current sensor is in an abnormal state, in a case where there is no abnormal state switching elements.

An electric motor drive device includes a smoothing capacitor and an inverter, and further includes an overvoltage protection unit for overvoltage protection for the smoothing capacitor, and a phase short-circuit control unit. The overvoltage protection unit includes: a discharge circuit having a discharge resistor and an IGBT connected in series; and a first determination circuit which determines, with determination delay, that smoothing capacitor voltage exceeds first set voltage, and turns on the IGBT. The phase short-circuit control unit is provided in a control device for drive-controlling the inverter and includes a second determination circuit which determines, with a determination period longer than the determination delay of the first determination circuit, that smoothing capacitor voltage exceeds second set voltage lower than the first set voltage, to perform phase short-circuit control for the inverter.

Electric motor drive device

A power supply unit includes: a first rectifying device connected to the direct current power source, a second rectifying device having an anode connected to the first rectifying device, a first condenser having one end connected to the second rectifying device, a second condenser connected to the second rectifying device, a third rectifying device having an anode connected to the second rectifying device, a resonance reactor connected to the third rectifying device and connected to the first condenser, s switching device connected to the direct current power source and connected the third rectifying device, an output reactor connected to the third rectifying device, an output condenser connected to the direct current power source and connected to the output reactor, an output rectifying device connected to the first condenser and connected to the direct current power source, a control circuit sending a gate signal to the switching device.

Circuit of a power supply unit having a switching device

A power convertor including an inverter driving a motor generator, a first DC/DC converter connected to a DC bus of the inverter, a second DC/DC converter varying voltage of the DC bus, and a control device controlling the inverter, the first DC/DC converter, and the second DC/DC converter. The power converter is a power conversion device setting voltage of the DC bus in a second control state higher than a voltage of the DC bus in a first control state by controlling the second DC/DC converter according to the control device. By setting the voltage of the DC bus of the inverter to a low voltage when it is not necessary, it is possible to reduce loss in the inverter and the step-down DC/DC converter, and to downsize the inverter and the step-down DC/DC converter.

A DC/DC converter in which a both-end voltage of each of capacitors can be safely uniformalized while an over current, which is passed through between the capacitors composing the DC/DC converter, is prevented. In a DC/DC converter which includes a plurality of switching elements, a reactor, a low-voltage side capacitor, a high-voltage side capacitor, a charge-discharge capacitor, and a controller which drives and controls the switching elements, the controller performs soft start control in which a duty ratio of at least one of the switching elements is gradually varied from 0% to 100%, and the switching element, in which the soft start control is not performed during the term of the soft start control, is turned off.

DC/DC converter

In a DC/DC converter that performs zero-voltage switching, capacitors are connected respectively in parallel to first and second MOSFETs that are included in an inverter unit in the primary-side of a transformer, and an inductor is connected to an AC output line. In a range of a current being more than a predetermined value, a control circuit controls the inverter unit using a PWM control with a fixed dead time, and in a light load range where the current is equal to or less than the predetermined value, the control unit changes the control to a PFM control and decreases a frequency so that the dead time becomes longer as the current decreases, to thereby keep a duty ratio without change.

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Yoshihiro Takeshima