Electric vehicle control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10486536-B2
Application number	US-201415304271-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 17, 2014
Priority date	Jun 17, 2014
Publication date	Nov 26, 2019
Grant date	Nov 26, 2019

Abstract

An electric vehicle control device includes: a main transformer to convert AC voltage input to an input winding thereof from an AC power source, and output converted AC voltage from each of a plurality of output windings; a plurality of converter main circuits, each connected to one of a plurality of secondary windings included in the output windings, to convert AC voltage output from connected secondary windings into DC voltage; and a plurality of converter controllers, each targeting for control one of the converter main circuits, to control by pulse width modulation the control-target converter main circuit, by comparing a signal wave and carrier wave. Each of the converter controllers determines a phase angle correction amount of the signal wave and/or the carrier wave, in response to operating state of a load supplied power through a predetermined output winding among the output windings.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electric vehicle control device comprising:
a main transformer to convert an input AC voltage from an AC power supply to an output AC voltage, output from a plurality of output windings;
a plurality of converter main circuits, each connected to one of a plurality of secondary output windings included in the plurality of output windings, to convert the output AC voltage into a DC voltage; and
a plurality of converter controllers, each configured to control one of the plurality of converter main circuits as a control target by pulse width modulation by comparison between a signal wave and a carrier wave, wherein
each of the plurality of converter controllers is further configured to determine a correction amount of a phase angle of at least one of the signal wave and the carrier wave, in response to an operating state of a load that is supplied power through a predetermined output winding among the plurality of output windings.

2. The electric vehicle control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the operating state of the load is:
an output current output from the predetermined output winding;
a power consumption of the load supplied power through the predetermined output winding; or
the supply power that is supplied through the predetermined output winding.

3. The electric vehicle control device according to claim 2 , wherein
each of the plurality of converter controllers increases the correction amount, as the output current, the power consumption, or the supply power increases.

4. The electric vehicle control device according to claim 3 , wherein
a rate of change of the correction amount relative to the output current, the power consumption, or the supply power is different for each of the plurality of converter controllers.

5. The electric vehicle control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the correction amount is an amount of correction of an initial setting value of at least one of the signal wave and the carrier wave.

6. The electric vehicle control device according to claim 5 , wherein
the initial setting value differs for each of the plurality of converter controllers.

7. The electric vehicle control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the plurality of output windings further includes a tertiary winding to connect to a supplementary power supply; and
the predetermined output winding is the tertiary winding.

8. The electric vehicle control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the predetermined output winding is a secondary output winding connected to a converter main circuit that is the control target of another converter controller.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Sugahara Tetsuo

Classifications

• B60L2210/20

  AC to AC converters · CPC title

• H02M1/4208

  Arrangements for improving power factor of AC input · CPC title

• B60L2210/30

  AC to DC converters · CPC title

• H02M5/4585

  having a rectifier with controlled elements · CPC title

• B60L15/06

  using substantially sinusoidal AC · CPC title