Inverter control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11984821-B2
Application number	US-202017761444-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 31, 2020
Priority date	Sep 20, 2019
Publication date	May 14, 2024
Grant date	May 14, 2024

Abstract

An inverter control device 200 includes a current control unit 210 that outputs a voltage commands (Vd*, Vq*), a modulation wave control unit 220 that generates a modulation wave based on the voltage commands (Vd*, Vq*), a pulse generation unit 230 that generates a PWM pulse for controlling an inverter 100 using a modulation wave and a carrier wave of a predetermined frequency, and a pulse shift unit 250 that corrects the phase of the PWM pulse such that the PWM pulse is output in a phase corresponding to a harmonic of a predetermined order of the modulation wave in the near-zero-cross region including the zero-cross point at which the modulation wave changes across 0.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An inverter control device, comprising:
a pulse generation unit configured to generate a pulse width modulation (PWM) pulse for controlling an inverter by using a modulation factor based on a voltage command and a pulse period of a predetermined frequency; and
a pulse shift unit configured to correct a phase of the PWM pulse such that the PWM pulse is output at a phase corresponding to a harmonic of a predetermined order of a modulation wave in a near-zero-cross region including a zero-cross point where the modulation wave based on the voltage command changes across 0.

2. The inverter control device according to claim 1 , wherein the pulse shift unit does not correct the phase of the PWM pulse when a difference between the phase of the PWM pulse generated by the pulse generation unit and a phase corresponding to the harmonic is equal to or larger than a predetermined value.

3. The inverter control device according to claim 2 , wherein the predetermined value is set according to a width of a peak where a fifth harmonic and a seventh harmonic of the modulation wave overlap with each other.

4. The inverter control device according to claim 1 , wherein the pulse shift unit corrects the phase of the PWM pulse such that the PWM pulse is output at phases corresponding to both the fifth harmonic and the seventh harmonic of the modulation wave.

5. The inverter control device according to claim 4 , wherein
the pulse generation unit generates two or more PWM pulses in the near-zero-cross region, and
the pulse shift unit corrects the phase of the PWM pulse such that the PWM pulse is output at phases corresponding to both the fifth harmonic and the seventh harmonic of the modulation wave and at phases corresponding to both an eleventh harmonic and a thirteenth harmonic of the modulation wave.

6. The inverter control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the pulse generation unit generates two or more PWM pulses in the near-zero-cross region, and
the pulse shift unit corrects the phase of the PWM pulse such that the PWM pulse is output at a phase corresponding to the fifth harmonic of the modulation wave and at a phase corresponding to the seventh harmonic of the modulation wave.

7. The inverter control device according to claim 1 , wherein the pulse shift unit corrects the phase of the PWM pulse in an overmodulation region where the modulation wave is a trapezoidal wave.

8. The inverter control device according to claim 7 , further comprising:
a carrier wave generation unit configured to generate a carrier wave having the pulse period, wherein
the carrier wave generation unit increases a frequency of the carrier wave in the overmodulation region.

9. The inverter control device according to claim 8 , wherein the carrier wave generation unit adjusts the frequency of the carrier wave such that a slope width of the trapezoidal wave becomes larger than a period of the carrier wave.

10. The inverter control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the pulse shift unit corrects the phase of the PWM pulse such that the PWM pulse is output at a phase shifted from the zero-cross point by a predetermined phase shift amount, and
the phase shift amount is a value of ((180−α)/14) degrees or more and ((180+α)/10) degrees or less in terms of electrical angle.

Assignees

• Hitachi Astemo Ltd

Inventors

• Ajima Toshiyuki
• Hara Takafumi
• Ashida Akihiro
• Matsui Hirokazu

Classifications

• H02M7/5395 Primary

  by pulse-width modulation · CPC title

• B60L15/08

  using pulses · CPC title

• H02M1/12

  Arrangements for reducing harmonics from AC input or output · CPC title

• H02P27/08

  with pulse width modulation · CPC title

• H02P29/40

  Regulating or controlling the amount of current drawn or delivered by the motor for controlling the mechanical load · CPC title