Three-phase interleaved resonant converter and power circuit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11894766-B2
Application number	US-202117528206-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 17, 2021
Priority date	Jul 6, 2021
Publication date	Feb 6, 2024
Grant date	Feb 6, 2024

Abstract

Disclosed is a three-phase interleaved resonant converter, which includes a three-phase inversion circuit connected to an input voltage and including a first output node, a second output node, and a third output node, a three-phase transformer including three transformers, a three-phase resonant circuit including three resonant capacitors and three resonant inductors, and a three-phase rectifier filter circuit. One ends of the three resonant inductors are respectively connected to the first output node, the second output node and the third output node, and the other ends of the three resonant inductors are respectively connected to a triangular configuration formed by an alternate connection of the three resonant capacitors with primary windings of the three transformers. The three-phase rectifier filter circuit is connected with secondary windings of the three transformers to rectify and filter secondary currents output by the secondary windings of the three transformers respectively, and generate an output voltage accordingly.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A three-phase interleaved resonant converter, comprising:
a three-phase inversion circuit connected to an input voltage and comprising a first output node, a second output node, and a third output node;
a three-phase transformer comprising three transformers;
a three-phase resonant circuit comprising a first resonant inductor, a second resonant inductor, a third resonant inductor, a first resonant capacitor, a second resonant capacitor and a third resonant capacitor, wherein a first end of the first resonant inductor is directly connected to the first output node, a second end of the first resonant inductor is directly connected to a first end of the first resonant capacitor, a first end of the second resonant inductor is directly connected to the second output node, a second end of the second resonant inductor is directly connected to a first end of the second resonant capacitor, a first end of the third resonant inductor is directly connected to the third output node, a second end of the third resonant inductor is directly connected to a first end of the third resonant capacitor, a second end of the first resonant capacitor is connected to the first end of the second resonant capacitor and the three-phase transformer, a second end of the second resonant capacitor is connected to the first end of the third resonant capacitor and the three-phase transformer and a second end of the third resonant capacitor is connected to the first end of the first resonant capacitor and the three-phase transformer; and
a three-phase rectifier filter circuit connected with secondary windings of the three transformers to rectify and filter secondary currents output by the secondary windings of the three transformers respectively, and generate an output voltage accordingly,
wherein the three-phase inversion circuit comprises a first switching bridge arm, a second switching bridge arm, and a third switching bridge arm connected in parallel, a midpoint of the first switching bridge arm is the first output node, a midpoint of the second switching bridge arm is the second output node, a midpoint of the third switching bridge arm is the third output node;
wherein the first switching bridge arm only comprises two first switches connected in series, the second switching bridge arm only comprises two second switches connected in series, and the third switching bridge arm only comprises two third switches connected in series,
wherein a phase difference between driving pulses of the first switching bridge arm and driving pulses of the second switching bridge arm is 120 degrees, a phase difference between the driving pulses of the second switching bridge arm and driving pulses of the third switching bridge arm is 120 degrees, and a phase difference between the driving pulses of the third switching bridge arm and the driving pulses of the first switching bridge arm is 120 degrees,
wherein the two first switches of the first switching bridge arm connected in series are with a switching timing difference of 180 degrees, the two second switches of the second switching bridge arm connected in series are with a switching timing difference of 180 degrees, and the two third switches of the third switching bridge arm connected in series are with a switching timing difference of 180 degrees, and
wherein two ends of the two first switches, the two second switches, and the two third switches are connected with a parallel reverse diode respectively.

2. The three-phase interleaved resonant converter according to claim 1 , wherein, in each of the three transformers, an excitation inductor is connected in parallel with a primary winding of each of the three transformers.

3. The three-phase interleaved resonant converter according to claim 2 , wherein the excitation inductor of each of the three transformers, the first resonant capacitor, the second resonant capacitor and the third resonant capacitor are connected in series.

4. The three-phase interleaved resonant converter according to claim 1 , wherein the three-phase rectifier filter circuit comprises three rectifier bridge arms connected in parallel, and midpoints of the three rectifier bridge arms are connected to a triangular configuration formed by the secondary windings of the three transformers connected to each other, respectively.

5. The three-phase interleaved resonant converter according to claim 4 , wherein each of the three rectifier bridge arms comprises two switches or two diodes connected in series.

6. The three-phase interleaved resonant converter according to claim 4 , wherein the three-phase rectifier filter circuit further comprises a filter capacitor connected in parallel with the three rectifier bridge arms, and the filter capacitor is configured to convert the secondary currents rectified by the three rectifier bridge arms to the output voltage that provides energy to an output load circuit.

7. The three-phase interleaved resonant converter according to claim 1 , wherein the three transformers comprises a first transformer, a second transformer, and a third transformer; the first resonant capacitor, a primary winding of the first transformer, the second resonant capacitor, a primary winding of the second transformer, the third resonant capacitor, and a primary winding of the third transformer are connected in sequence to form the triangular configuration; two ends of the first resonant inductor are respectively connected to a connection node between the first resonant capacitor and the primary winding of the third transformer and the first output node; two ends of the second resonant inductor are respectively connected to a connection node between the second resonant capacitor and the primary winding of the first transformer and the second output node; and two ends of the third resonant inductor are respectively connected to a connection node between the third resonant capacitor and the primary winding of the second transformer and the third output node.

8. A power circuit, comprising:
a three-phase interleaved resonant converter, comprising:
a three-phase inversion circuit connected to an input voltage and comprising a first output node, a second output node, and a third output node;
a three-phase transformer comprising three transformers;
a three-phase resonant circuit comprising a first resonant inductor, a second resonant inductor, a third resonant inductor, a first resonant capacitor, a second resonant capacitor and a third resonant capacitor, wherein a first end of the first resonant inductor is directly connected to the first output node, a second end of the first resonant inductor is directly connected to a first end of the first resonant capacitor, a first end of the second resonant inductor is directly connected to the second output node, a second end of the second resonant inductor is directly connected to a first end of the second resonant capacitor, a first end of the third resonant inductor is directly connected to the third output node, a second end of the third resonant inductor is directly connected to a first end of the third resonant capacitor, a second end of the first resonant capacitor is connected to the first end of the second resonant capacitor and the three-phase transformer, a second end of the second resonant capacitor is connected to the first end of the third resonant capacitor and the three-phase transformer and a second end of the third resonant capacitor is connected to the first end of the first resonant capacitor and the three-phase transformer; and
a three-phase rectifier filter circuit connected with secondary windings of the three transformers to rectify and filter secondary currents output by the secondary windings of the three transformers respectively, and generate an outpu

Assignees

• Lite On Electronics Guangzhou

Inventors

• Li Yan
• Sun Lu
• Lv Peixian
• Li Xiaoqiang

Classifications

• H02M3/01 Primary

  Resonant DC/DC converters · CPC title

• H02M1/0058

  by employing soft switching techniques, i.e. commutation of transistors when applied voltage is zero or when current flow is zero (using an auxiliary actively switched resonant commutation circuit connected to an intermediate DC voltage or between two push-pull branches of an inverter bridge H02M7/4811; in resonant inverters H02M7/4815; in inverters operating from a resonant DC source H02M7/4826) · CPC title

• H02M3/33569 Primary

  having several active switching elements (H02M3/3353 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H02M3/33576

  having at least one active switching element at the secondary side of an isolation transformer · CPC title

• H02M3/33592

  having a synchronous rectifier circuit or a synchronous freewheeling circuit at the secondary side of an isolation transformer · CPC title