A loss optimization control method for modular multilevel converters (MMCs) under fault-tolerant control is disclosed. The method includes the following steps: when a fault of a SM in a MMC occurs, bypassing the faulty SM to achieve fault-tolerant control; suppressing the fundamental circulating current using a fundamental circulating current controller; respectively calculating the loss of each SM in faulty arms and healthy arms by using loss expressions of different switching tubes in SMs of the MMC; aiming at the loss imbalance between the arms of the MMC, taking the loss of a healthy SM as the reference, adjusting the period of capacitor voltage sorting control in the faulty SMs, achieving the loss control over the working SMs in the faulty SMs, and finally achieving the loss balance of each SM in the faulty arms and the healthy arms. Compared with the conventional methods, the proposed method is easier to implement and does not increase the construction cost of MMCs.

A regenerative gate charging circuit includes an inductor coupled to a gate of a FET. An output control circuit is coupled to a timing control circuit and a bridged inductor driver, which is coupled to the inductor. A sense circuit is coupled to the gate and to the timing control circuit, which receives a control signal, generates output control signals in accordance with a first timing profile, and transmits the output control signals to the output control circuit. In accordance with the first timing profile, the output control circuit holds switches or controllable current sources of the bridged inductor driver in an ON state for a first period and holds the switches or controllable current sources in an OFF state for a second period. Gate voltages are sampled during the second period and after the first period. The timing control circuit generates a second timing profile using the sampled voltages.

A switch controller coupled to control a transistor. The switch controller comprising an interface coupled to receive a command signal in response to an event sensed in a control system. The command signal is representative of a first command to control the transistor with a first drive strength or a second command to control the transistor with a second drive strength. The switch controller is coupled to adjust a fall time or a rise time, or to adjust both the fall time and the rise time, of a voltage across the transistor in response to the command signal. The fall time or the rise time, or both the fall time and the rise time in response to the second command is shorter than the fall time or the rise time, or both the fall time and the rise time in response to the first command.

An isolated resonant conversion control apparatus includes a voltage and current obtaining unit configured to obtain an output voltage and an output current of an output-side switch transistor of an isolated resonant conversion unit, and a processing unit configured to calculate a switching frequency of an input-side switch transistor of the isolated resonant conversion unit based on the output voltage and the output current, obtain a turn-on offset time and a turn-off offset time of the output-side switch transistor relative to the input-side switch transistor based on the switching frequency of the input-side switch transistor, obtain a duty ratio of a second driving signal based on a duty ratio of a first driving signal, the turn-on offset time, and the turn-off offset time, and generate the second driving signal based on the switching frequency and the duty ratio of the second driving signal.

To provide a control apparatus for AC rotary machine and an electric power steering apparatus which can reduce the error component of the current detection value close to the mechanical resonance period of AC rotary machine. A control apparatus for AC rotary machine detects currents which flow into three-phase windings at a current detection period which is a first natural number times of a carrier period; calculates current detection values, by performing a current addition processing which adds current detection values detected at this time, and current detection values detected before an addition period which is a second natural number times of the current detection period; and calculates the voltage command values of three-phase based on the current detection values after current addition processing, wherein the second natural number is set to a natural number that the addition period becomes the closest to the half period of the mechanical resonance period.

A rotary electric machine control apparatus (1) suitably controls two inverters (10) connected to associated ends of open windings (8). The rotary electric machine control apparatus (1) performs target control involving: controlling a first one of the inverters (10), which is selected from a first inverter (11) and a second inverter (12), by rectangular wave control; and controlling a second one of the inverters (10) by special pulse width modulation control that is one type of pulse width modulation control. The special pulse width modulation control is a control method to produce a switching pattern (Su2+) that is based on a difference between a switching pattern resulting from the pulse width modulation control and a switching pattern (Su1+) resulting from the rectangular wave control when a target voltage is to be generated in the open windings (8).

A dual multi-level inverter topology with reduced switch count and small DC-link capacitor is provided. The inverter topology provides multi-level inverter operation without requiring a neutral point connection that is commonly present in a stacked capacitor topology (for example, a topology including two capacitors).

Two inverters (10) provided at respective both ends of open-end windings (8) are appropriately controlled. As control regions (R) of a rotating electrical machine (80), a first speed region (VR1) and a second speed region (VR2) in which the rotational speed of the rotating electrical machine (80) is higher than in the first speed region (VR1) for the same torque are set, and in the second speed region (VR2), a rotating electrical machine control device (1) controls both inverters (10), a first inverter (11) and a second inverter (12), by mixed pulse width modulation control in which control is performed such that a plurality of pulses with different patterns are outputted during a first period (T1) which is a half cycle of electrical angle, and an inactive state continues during a second period (T2) which is the other half cycle.

A switched capacitor voltage converter circuit includes: a switched capacitor converter and a control circuit; wherein the control circuit adjusts operation frequencies and/or duty ratios of operation signals which control switches of the switched capacitor converter, so as to adjust a ratio of a first voltage to a second voltage to a predetermined ratio. When the control circuit decreases the duty ratios of the operation signals, if a part of the switches of the switched capacitor converter are turned ON, an inductor current flowing toward the second voltage is in a first state; if the inductor current continues to flow via a current freewheeling path, the inductor current flowing toward the second voltage becomes in a second state. A corresponding inductor is thereby switched between the first state and the second state to perform inductive power conversion.

A power converter includes: a switching transistor, a transformer, a control circuit; the control circuit is configured to determine a target voltage in a process that the switching transistor is driven to conduct; the target voltage can represent a voltage change of an input terminal of the switching transistor; when the target voltage starts to drop but is higher than a reference voltage, drive a control terminal of the switching transistor with a first driving current; when the target voltage decreases to be lower than the reference voltage, drive the switching transistor with a second driving current; the second driving current is higher than the first driving current; the switching transistor is driven by the first driving current for part or all of the time before entering the Miller plateau stage, and is driven by the second driving current after starting to enter the Miller plateau stage.