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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2018
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention discloses a vehicle. The vehicle includes an AC electric machine configured to generate traction driving force, a DC bus configured to provide a DC voltage, an inverter, and a controller. The inverter is coupled with the DC bus and configured to convert the DC voltage from the DC bus to an AC voltage to drive the AC electric machine, and the inverter includes a plurality of transistors. The controller is configured to control the inverter to maintain the vehicle to run in a fault-tolerant mode when an open circuit fault occurs in one of the transistors in the inverter during running of the vehicle. The present invention further discloses a control method of the vehicle and a system.