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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2020
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Kenji Hanamura, Osaka, JP;
Wataru Horio, Osaka, JP;
Hiroyuki Fujii, Nara, JP;
Shogo Hirota, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An inverter circuit includes a plurality of flying capacitors and converts a DC voltage supplied from a DC power supply into an AC voltage. A filter circuit approximates a waveform of an output voltage of the inverter circuit to a sinusoidal wave. An excess current protection circuit supplies a block signal for turning off a plurality of switching elements to the driving circuit when an excess current is detected. When at least one of an abnormal voltage in any of the plurality of flying capacitors and an abrupt change in an output voltage of the power converter occurs, voltages other than a positive voltage of the DC power supply, a negative voltage of the DC power supply, and a zero voltage are restricted from being output from the inverter circuit.