An inverter assembly for an electric vehicle. The inverter assembly includes three inverters driving at least one wheel of the vehicle. Each inverter has a different phases angle relative to the other inverters in order to minimize current ripple and reduce the capacitor size to allow a smaller package for the inverter assembly.

A vehicle may include a battery having positive and negative electrodes. The vehicle may also include a controller programmed to charge and discharge the battery according to a state of charge that is based on an effective surface lithium-ion concentration of one of the electrodes, and an effective surface lithium-ion concentration of the other of the electrodes derived from a center-to-surface lithium-ion concentration profile of the one of the electrodes. The effective surface lithium-ion concentration of the other of the electrodes may be derived via a relationship mapping the center-to-surface lithium-ion concentration profile of the one of the electrodes to the effective surface lithium-ion concentration of the other of the electrodes.

Various embodiments are described herein for a dual-voltage charging system for electrified vehicles. In one example embodiment, the dual-voltage charging system comprises an integrated active filter auxiliary power module (AFAPM), the integrated AFAPM is applied as an active power filter (APF) to compensate low frequency harmonics in a high voltage (HV) battery charger when the HV battery is charging, and applied as a low voltage (LV) battery charger auxiliary power module (APM) when the HV battery stops the charging and starts to charge the LV battery.

The invention relates to a circuit device (100) for reducing common-mode interference of a power converter (60), the power converter (60) forming a common-mode interference source during operation. The circuit device (100) comprises at least one short-circuited additional line (50), which can be coupled to an input (10, 15) and an output (20, 25, 30) of the power converter (60). The additional line (50) conducts the interference currents produced by the common-mode interference source and returns said interference currents to the common-mode interference source.

In a motor for a vehicle, a protrusion portion is formed to protrude from a stator body of a stator. Therefore, an amount of a magnetic field emitted to a side of an occupant of a vehicle is suppressed. In addition, a reduction value of the magnetic field emitted to the side of the occupant of the vehicle is decided based on an amount of protrusion of the protrusion portion and a length of the protrusion portion in a circumferential direction of a rotation of a rotor.

A control device for an electric vehicle, includes: a DC power supply; a three-phase AC motor; an inverter that converts DC power supplied from the DC power supply into AC power and outputs the AC power to the three-phase AC motor; and a control unit that controls the inverter to control an input voltage to the three-phase AC motor. Further, when a parameter correlated with the input voltage includes a predetermined high frequency component, the control unit performs correction of adding a component for canceling out the high frequency component to the input voltage, and controls the three-phase AC motor based on the corrected input voltage.

According to a single-stage interleaved software switching converter, power factor is controlled and battery charging and current are integrally controlled on the basis of a PFC circuit of a single-stage interleaving type so that efficiency of a charging device is enhanced and the cost is reduced. Further, it is possible to remove harmful electromagnetic radiation; enhance power density and durability by using a film-type capacitor instead of the conventional electrolytic capacitor; reduce switching loss by soft switching operation and to reduce the volume of a filter unit; design magnetizing current to be small by removing a low-frequency component of a transformer and to reduce the volume; and perform high-power charging according to the number of windings of the transformer.

A control apparatus for a rotating electric machine is applied to a rotating electric machine system. The rotating electric machine system includes a rotating electric machine having a multiple-phase winding, a first inverter connected to a first end of the winding for each phase, a second inverter connected to a second end of the winding for each phase, a high-potential-side connection line, and a low-potential-side connection line. The control apparatus acquires a parameter that has a correlation with a fundamental current that flows to the winding of each phase. The control apparatus stores, in a storage unit, correspondence information in which the parameter is associated with an amplitude and a phase of a harmonic voltage that is generated in the rotating electric machine. The control apparatus controls each of the first inverter and the second inverter to suppress the harmonic voltage based on the correspondence information and the acquired parameter.

A charging unit for wireless power transfer. The charging unit includes at least one coil for inductive power transfer, a sensor coil array with a sensing field for sensing the presence of at least one foreign object, and a controller. The controller is configured to move the sensor coil array and/or sensing field so that the sensing field can scan a sensing region, and configured to detect the presence of the at least one foreign object in the sensing region based on the sensing array output. The sensor coil array and/or sensing field is moveable such that the sensing field can be: a) positioned in the sensing region so that the sensing field does not overlap the at least one foreign object, and also b) positioned in the sensing region so that the sensing field does overlap the at least one foreign object.

Methods and apparatus utilizing time division access of multiple radar transceivers in living object detection for wireless power transfer applications are provided. In one aspect, an apparatus for detecting an object in a detection area of a wireless power transfer system is provided. The apparatus comprises a plurality of radar transceivers. The apparatus comprises a processor configured to group the plurality of radar transceivers into pairs of radar transceivers. The processor is configured to instruct each of the pairs of radar transceivers to transmit radar signals during a corresponding time slot of a plurality of time slots. The processor is configured to instruct each of the pairs of radar transceivers to receive the radar signals during the corresponding time slot of the plurality of time slots. The processor is configured to detect the object in the detection area based on at least some of the radar signals received by each of the pairs of radar transceivers.