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Power converter

US5631819A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 16, 1996
Grant dateMay 20, 1997
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Expiry dateApr 16, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH02M7/53876
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention provides an electric power converter system which uses a standard low-priced control processor and is suitable for improving the voltage utilization factor in the output voltage. D-axis and q-axis voltage commands and a rotation angle .theta. defining a voltage command vector on a rotating coordinate system are input to a voltage calculation circuit. The voltage command vector is transformed in a rotating coordinate transformation unit into a .alpha. axis and .beta. axis voltage commands to be defined relative to stationary coordinate system. A judgment unit determines which section contains the voltage command vector, from among three sections on the stationary coordinate system having one axis thereof (.alpha.-axis for example) coinciding with one axis of the three phases. A three phase voltage generation unit then selects a method of calculation on the basis of a result of the section determination, and calculates three phase voltage command values respectively utilizing the .alpha. axis and .beta. axis voltage command values. Since calculation requires only a simple add/subtract and shift operation, a high performance economical power converter system which improv…

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