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Converter with additional voltage addition or subtraction at the output

US6621719B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 17, 2002
Grant dateSep 16, 2003
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Expiry dateApr 17, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH02M7/487
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A circuit for transmitting real power from a DC voltage side to AC voltage-side connections has a first power converter (4) with load connections (5) connected in series with second power converters (7) having a lower intermediate-circuit capacitor voltage. This allows finer voltage graduation of a sum voltage at the AC voltage-side connections (10). Voltages of intermediate-circuit capacitances of power converters (4, 7) and a common-mode voltage of the AC voltage-side connections can be jointly regulated. The intermediate-circuit capacitor voltages can be kept essentially constant. The second power converters (7) can interchange real power with a load (11) and the first power converter (4). Changes in the intermediate-circuit capacitor voltages can be calculated in advance using a model of the converter. The common-mode voltage can be selected to minimize a weighted sum of the squares of the errors between the intermediate-circuit capacitor voltages and the respective nominal values.

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