Zero-voltage zero-current soft switching type driving method for ultrasonic driving unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11539309-B2
Application number	US-202017079432-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 24, 2020
Priority date	Apr 24, 2020
Publication date	Dec 27, 2022
Grant date	Dec 27, 2022

Abstract

A zero-voltage zero-current soft switching type driving method for an ultrasonic motor is provided, relating to the technical field of driving of a two-phase actuator. The disclosure solves the problems of high loss, high heat amount and the like in a traditional ultrasonic motor driving circuit. The method provided realizes resonance between series inductors and buffer capacitors by means of an optimal design of the inductance of matching inductors, the capacitance of buffer capacitors, a dead time value and a delay time value, thereby causing a power tube to realize zero-voltage and zero-current switching. Two signal input ends of a two-phase pseudo full bridge inverter are connected to a power grid, and two signal output ends of the two-phase pseudo full bridge inverter are respectively connected to two signal input ends of a matching circuit; and the output ends of the matching circuit are respectively connected to a two-phase ultrasonic motor.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A zero-voltage zero-current soft switching type driving method for an ultrasonic driving unit, wherein the ultrasonic driving unit comprises a two-phase pseudo full bridge inverter circuit having soft switching capability, and a matching circuit, and the zero-voltage zero-current soft switching type driving method comprises a specific matching inductor inductance calculation step, a buffer capacitor capacitance calculation step, and a dead time and delay time calculation step;
wherein the two-phase pseudo full bridge inverter circuit having the soft switching capability comprises six power switch tubes, which comprises a first MOS tube (Q 1 ), a second MOS tube (Q 2 ), a third MOS tube (Q 3 ), a fourth MOS tube (Q 4 ), a fifth MOS tube (Q 5 ), a sixth MOS tube (Q 6 ), a first buffer capacitor (C Q2 ), a second buffer capacitor (C Q4 ), a first transformer (T A ) and a second transformer (T B );
a drain of the first MOS tube (Q 1 ), a drain of the third MOS tube (Q 3 ) and a drain of the fifth MOS tube (Q 5 ) are connected, and then are connected to a positive pole of a direct current bus of the two-phase pseudo full bridge inverter circuit ( 101 );
a source of the second MOS tube (Q 2 ), a source of the fourth MOS tube (Q 4 ), a source of the sixth MOS tube (Q 6 ), one end of the first buffer capacitor (C Q2 ) and one end of the second buffer capacitor (C Q4 ) are connected, and then are connected to a negative pole of the direct current bus of the two-phase pseudo full bridge inverter circuit;
a source of the first MOS tube (Q 1 ), a drain of the second MOS tube (Q 2 ), the other end of the first buffer capacitor (C Q2 ) and one end of a primary winding of the first transformer (T A ) are connected, and an end, having the same name as the one end of the primary winding, of a secondary winding of the first transformer (T A ) is used as a first voltage output end of the two-phase pseudo full bridge inverter circuit;
a source of the fifth MOS tube (Q 5 ), a drain of the sixth MOS tube (Q 6 ), the other end of the second buffer capacitor (C Q4 ) and one end of a primary winding of the second transformer (T B ) are connected, and an end, having the same name as the one end of the primary winding, of a secondary winding of the second transformer (T B ) is used as a second voltage output end of the two-phase pseudo full bridge inverter circuit;
a source of the third MOS tube (Q 3 ), a drain of the fourth MOS tube (Q 4 ), the other end of the primary winding of the first transformer (T A ) and the other end of the primary winding of the second transformer (T B ) are connected, and the other end of the secondary winding of the first transformer (T A ) is connected to the other end of the secondary winding of the second transformer (T B ) to form a third voltage output end of the two-phase pseudo full bridge inverter circuit;
a voltage between the first voltage output end of the two-phase pseudo full bridge inverter circuit and the third voltage output end of the two-phase pseudo full bridge inverter circuit is used as one phase of input voltage of a two-phase motor; and
a voltage between the second voltage output end of the two-phase pseudo full bridge inverter circuit and the third voltage output end of the two-phase pseudo full bridge inverter circuit is used as the other phase of input voltage of a two-phase electromagnetic motor.

2. The zero-voltage zero-current soft switching type driving method according to claim 1 , wherein switching control logic applied to bases of the six power switch tubes is as follows:
an on-off status of the first MOS tube (Q 1 ) is the same as an on-off status of the sixth MOS tube (Q 6 ); on-off statuses of the second MOS tube (Q 2 ) and the fifth MOS tube (Q 5 ) are the same; specific dead time exists between the on-off status of the first MOS tube (Q 1 ) and the on-off status of the second MOS tube (Q 2 ); the same specific dead time exists between the third MOS tube (Q 3 ) and the fourth MOS tube (Q 4 ); and specific delay time exists between the on-off status of the first MOS tube (Q 1 ) and the on-off status of the third MOS tube (Q 3 );
each of the first MOS tube (Q 1 ), the second MOS tube (Q 2 ), the third MOS tube (Q 3 ), the fourth MOS tube (Q 4 ), the fifth MOS tube (Q 5 ) and the sixth MOS tube (Q 6 ) is switched on or switched off once and only once within each inversion cycle.

3. The zero-voltage zero-current soft switching type driving method according to claim 1 , wherein the matching circuit comprises a first inductor (L A ) and a second inductor (L B );
a first voltage output end of the two-phase pseudo full bridge inverter circuit is connected to one end of the first inductor (L A ), and the other end of the first inductor (L A ) is used as a first voltage output end of the matching circuit;
a third voltage output end of the two-phase pseudo full bridge inverter circuit is used as a third voltage output end of the matching circuit;
a second voltage output end of the two-phase pseudo full bridge inverter circuit is connected to one end of the second inductor (L B ), and the other end of the second inductor (L B ) is used as a second voltage output end of the matching circuit;
a voltage between the first voltage output end of the matching circuit and the third voltage output end of the matching circuit is used as a two-phase voltage of a two-phase ultrasonic motor/piezoelectric sensor;
a voltage between the second voltage output end of the matching circuit and the third voltage output end of the matching circuit is used as the other two-phase signal of the two-phase ultrasonic motor/piezoelectric sensor.

4. The zero-voltage zero-current soft switching type driving method according to claim 1 , wherein a calculation method of inductance of the first inductor (L A ) and inductance of the second inductor (L B ) in the matching circuit is as follows:
in the matching circuit, the first inductor (L A ) and the second inductor (L B ) are both expressed by inductance L:
L= ( C d R m 2 L m C m /( L m C m +C d 2 R m 2 ))×(1+α L ),

wherein,
R m =1/(max( G )−min( G )),

L m =R m /[ω(min( B ))−ω(max( B ))],

C m =1/( L m ω r 2 ),

C d =(max( B )+min( B ))/(2ω r ),

wherein α L is a remaining inductance coefficient; G=|Y|×cos(φ) refers to conductance; B=|Y|×sin(φ) refers to susceptance; |Y| and φ refer to an absolute value and a phase of the admittance, and are directly measured through an impedance analyzer; ω is a function of an angular frequency under an output condition; ω r refers to a resonant frequency; a remaining inductance coefficient α L is to balance a contradiction between a conduction loss and a switching loss; an extremely large α L causes a relatively high conduction loss, and an extremely small α L causes a relatively high switching loss; and a value of α L is 0.1.

5. The zero-voltage zero-current soft switching type driving method according to claim 1 , wherein a specific calculation method of capacitance of the first buffer capacitor (C Q2 ) and capacitance of the second buffer capacitor (C Q4 ) is as follows:
the capacitance of the first buffer capacitor (C Q2 ) and the capacitance of the second buffer capacitor (C Q4 ) in the two-phase pseudo full bridge inverter circuit are equal, and are expressed by C:
C >max(10 C OSS , 4 /R E ω E ),

wherein,
R E =R m L m C m /( n T 2 ( L m C m +C d 2 R m 2 )),
ω E =1/(α L C d R m ),

wherein C OSS refers to output capacitance of a power switch; α L is a remaining coefficient of inductance; and n T is a transformer turns ratio;
if a MOS tube with relatively low output capacitance is selected, and the capacitance meets C OSS <<0.4/(R E ω E ), t

Assignees

• Harbin Inst Technology

Inventors

• Shi Weijia
• Yu Xuyang
• Zhao Bo
• Tan Jiubin

Classifications

• Y02B70/10

  Technologies improving the efficiency by using switched-mode power supplies [SMPS], i.e. efficient power electronics conversion e.g. power factor correction or reduction of losses in power supplies or efficient standby modes · CPC title

• H02N2/147 Primary

  Multi-phase circuits · CPC title

• H02M7/5387 Primary

  in a bridge configuration · CPC title

• H02N2/0075

  Electrical details, e.g. drive or control circuits or methods · CPC title

• H02N2/001

  Driving devices, e.g. vibrators · CPC title