Electric power conversion systems – Current conversion – Having plural converters for single conversion
Reexamination Certificate
2007-06-12
2007-06-12
Laxton, Gary L (Department: 2838)
Electric power conversion systems
Current conversion
Having plural converters for single conversion
C363S098000, C327S175000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11277594
ABSTRACT:
A method of balancing the voltage of DC links in a cascaded multi-level converter (CMC) semiconductor circuit, including the steps of providing a plurality of H-bridge converters per phase in the CMC circuit and utilizing a three phase duty cycle value from the main controller to determine a normalized duty cycle value, a ceiling duty cycle value and a floor duty cycle value. The normalized duty cycle value and an output current of the CMC is used to determine the direction and polarity of a capacitor current, and utilizing the capacitor current to determine a plurality of output capacitor voltages. A voltage summation result and direction is obtained from a ceiling index pointer and a floor index pointer and the voltage summation result, direction from the ceiling index pointer and a floor index pointer are used to create a combined switching table for the H-bridge converters. A pulse width modulator is utilized to balance the voltage of the DC links and thereby eliminate DC-capacitor voltage imbalance.
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Edris Abdel-Aty
Huang Qin
Ingram Michael R.
Sirisukprasert Siriroj
Adams Evans P.A.
Electrical Power Research Institute, Inc.
Laxton Gary L
North Carolina State University
Tennessee Valley Authority
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