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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2016
Industry-academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University, Seoul, KR;
Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, Changwon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, KR;
Jungwook Park, Seoul, KR;
Soohyoung Lee, Gunpo-si, KR;
Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University, Seoul, KR;
Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, Changwon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for controlling an asymmetric modular multilevel converter which allow numerous levels to be expressed according to a combination of modules each using a different voltage, comprising: an asymmetric arm configured with a full bridge and a half bridge; and a control method of controlling each capacitor level of the full bridges and capacitor level of the remaining half bridges to be different from one another by a full bridge structure, wherein each module configuring the asymmetric arm uses a different voltage and an output voltage is expressed by a combination thereof.