H02M7/53876

MOTOR ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOTOR ASSEMBLY
20230039050 · 2023-02-09 ·

The present disclosure relates to a motor assembly and a method for controlling the motor assembly. The motor assembly is characterized by comprising: a stator having a plurality of slots; a first coil and a second coil isolated from the first coil, the first and second coils being wound on each of the plurality of slots such that three-phase alternating currents are applied thereto; a rotor rotated by rotation magnetic fields generated by the first coil and the second coil; a first inverter unit for controlling the three-phase alternating current which is applied to the first coil in order to generate the rotation magnetic field; and a second inverter unit for controlling the three-phase alternating current which is applied to the second coil in order to generate the rotation magnetic field. Control signals for turning on and off the three-phase alternating currents applied to the first coil and the second coil are generated so as to be left-right symmetric by the first inverter unit and the second inverter unit during a preset switching cycle.

Method of controlling power converter and power converter

A method of controlling a power converter is provided. The power converter generates a three-phase output power by switching an input power through a plurality of switches. The method includes steps of: acquiring a three-phase output command corresponding to the three-phase output power; comparing the three-phase output command with a control carrier to acquire a voltage phase angle corresponding to the three-phase output command; acquiring a three-phase current value of the three-phase output power; detecting the voltage phase angle and a positive/negative change of the three-phase current value to decide a zero-sequence voltage; composing the zero-sequence voltage and the three-phase output command to acquire a three-phase output expected value; comparing the three-phase expected values with the control carrier to acquire a turned-on time of each switch; and switching the input power to adjust the three-phase output power according to the turned-on time of each switch.

ELECTRICAL POWER CONVERTER

An AC-DC converter may include three phase terminals, two DC terminals, a first converter stage to convert between an AC current at the phase terminals and a first DC current at the first and second intermediate nodes, a second converter stage operable to convert between a first DC signal at third and fourth intermediate nodes and a second DC signal at the DC terminals, a first filter stage comprising a capacitor network having a star-point, a DC link connecting the first intermediate node to the third intermediate node and the second intermediate node to the fourth intermediate node. The second converter stage includes a middle voltage node between the DC terminals and a boost circuit having a midpoint node at the same electrical potential as the middle voltage node. The DC link includes a common mode filter having a common mode capacitor connecting the middle voltage node to the star-point.

CONTROL METHOD OF DUAL THREE-PHASE PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR BY ALTERNATELY PERFORMING SAMPLING AND CONTROL PROCEDURES
20230006582 · 2023-01-05 ·

The present invention discloses a control method of a dual three-phase permanent magnet synchronous motor by alternately performing sampling and control procedures, which belongs to the field of power generation, power transformation or power distribution technologies. Sampling instants, vector loading instants, and reference value tracking instants of two sets of windings alternate in two halves of a sampling period, and the equivalent sampling frequency of the motor drive system is doubled and the digital delay and the predictive horizon are halved without changing the sampling frequency of a single set of three-phase windings. In addition, by means of a two-layer MPC strategy, a deficient-rank problem is settled that the controlled dimensionality of the system is reduced to two dimensions but the motor control objective is still four dimensions caused by the method with controlling a dual three-phase permanent magnet synchronous motor by alternately performing sampling and control procedures. According to the control method of a dual three-phase permanent magnet synchronous motor by alternately performing sampling and control procedures provided in the present invention, the steady-state and dynamic control performance of a motor drive system for a dual three-phase permanent magnet synchronous motor is effectively improved, and computation burden of the control algorithm is reduced.

Apparatus and method of controlling compressor, and air conditioner including the same

A compressor control apparatus includes a rectifier configured to rectify AC power to DC power; an inverter including a plurality of switching elements, configured to convert the DC power into a three-phase voltage according to a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal applied to the plurality of switching elements; a motor configured to receive a three-phase current based on the three-phase voltage; a current detector configured to detect a sum of a first phase current, a second phase current, and a third phase current supplied to the motor; and a controller configured to differently determine a duty ratio of the PWM signal applied to each of the plurality of switching elements, and to determine the first phase current, the second phase current, and the third phase current, respectively, based on the determined duty ratio and the sum of the currents detected from the current detector.

Motor control device
11705845 · 2023-07-18 · ·

This motor control device includes a vector control unit. The vector control unit includes: a current control unit that calculates a before-compensation d-axis voltage command value and a before-compensation q-axis voltage command value; a first non-interference control unit that calculates a first d-axis non-interference compensation value on the basis of a q-axis current command value to compensate for the before-compensation d-axis voltage command value and calculates a first q-axis non-interference compensation value on the basis of a d-axis current command value to compensate for the before-compensation q-axis voltage command value; and a second non-interference control unit that cancels out an interference component of a d-axis current generated in a specific rotation range of a motor with a q-axis current and an interference component of the q-axis current generated in the specific rotation range with the d-axis current by using a variable integral gain varying depending on a motor rotation speed.

TWO-PHASE MOTOR ASSEMBLY
20230223882 · 2023-07-13 ·

The present disclosure relates to a motor assembly, and more particularly, to a motor having a two-phase input power source and a power conversion device for driving a two-phase motor. The present disclosure relates to the motor assembly for driving the two-phase motor, the motor assembly configured to comprise: a motor including a first winding and a second winding having an electrically insulated parallel structure; a DC-link circuit for supplying a direct-current voltage; and an inverter connected to the DC-link circuit to convert the direct-current voltage into an alternating-current voltage to drive the motor, and including a first switching element set connected to the first winding and a second switching element set connected to the second winding.

METHOD OF CLAMPING OUTPUT CURRENT OF THREE-PHASE POWER CONVERTER
20230223866 · 2023-07-13 ·

A method of clamping an output current of a three-phase power converter is provided. The three-phase power converter includes three switching bridge arms and provides a three-phase output voltage command, and each switching bridge arm has an upper switch and a lower switch connected in series. The method includes steps of: determining that the output current is greater than a first current threshold to activate a current clamping control procedure, comparing a carrier signal with the three-phase output voltage command to turn on the lower switches by a first zero vector when the carrier signal is rising and turn on the upper switches by a second zero vector when the carrier signal is falling, determining that the output current is greater than a second current threshold to activate an overcurrent protection procedure, wherein the second current threshold is greater than the first current threshold.

CURRENT FED HIGH-FREQUENCY ISOLATED MATRIX CONVERTER WITH THE CORRESPONDING MODULATION AND CONTROL SCHEMES

A current fed high-frequency isolated matrix converter and the corresponding modulation and control schemes are provided. The converter includes a current source full-bridge converter, a high-frequency transformer, a matrix converter, and a three-phase filter. An optimized space vector modulation solution is used for controlling the converter, and by comparing magnitudes of three-phase filter capacitor voltages to determine an action sequence of space vectors, switch tubes are turned on at zero voltage. A current source full-bridge circuit adopts a commutation strategy of a secondary clamping, and by calculating a leakage inductive current commutation time, full-bridge switch tubes are turned off at zero current to achieve safe and reliable commutation, and having advantages of a low system loss, a high efficiency, and a high power density.

POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING FAILURE OF POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS
20220416688 · 2022-12-29 · ·

A three-phase/two-phase conversion unit 43 generates a composite vector i.sub.αβ of three-phase AC currents based on AC currents iu, iv, and iw. An electrical angle calculation unit 44 outputs the electrical angle of the composite vector i.sub.αβ with reference to the U-phase AC current iu. A quadrant calculation unit 45 obtains which quadrant of the first to sixth quadrants partitioned in advance the acquired electrical angle corresponds to, confirms whether the composite vector i.sub.αβ passes through the set quadrant, and outputs quadrant information thereof. A failure detection unit 47 determines whether the composite vector i.sub.αβ has rotated from the first quadrant to the sixth quadrant, and when there is a quadrant that has not been passed, considers that it is a failure state, specifies a failure part of the switching element from the relationship between the electrical angle and the failure part, and outputs failure information to a PWM signal generation unit 42.