Electric power conversion circuit system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9450499-B2
Application number	US-201514630051-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 24, 2015
Priority date	Feb 26, 2014
Publication date	Sep 20, 2016
Grant date	Sep 20, 2016

Abstract

There is provided an electric power conversion circuit system having a primary side electric power conversion circuit, a secondary side electric power conversion circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit sets at least one of a half-bridge phase difference between a lower-left-arm transistor and a lower-right-arm transistor of the primary side electric power conversion circuit and a half-bridge phase difference of the secondary side electric power conversion circuit based on OFF periods of the primary side and secondary side electric power conversion circuits, dead-times of the primary side and secondary side electric power conversion circuits, and an amount of change of a power supply voltage so that a current in a non-transmission period of electric power is zero between the primary side and secondary side electric power conversion circuits.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electric power conversion circuit system, comprising:
a primary side electric power conversion circuit;
a secondary side electric power conversion circuit magnetically coupled to the primary side electric power conversion circuit; and
a control circuit that controls transmission of electric power between the primary side electric power conversion circuit and the secondary side electric power conversion circuit, wherein
the primary side electric power conversion circuit comprises, between a primary side positive electrode bus and a primary side negative electrode bus, a left arm, a right arm, and a primary side coil, wherein the left arm comprises an upper-left-arm transistor and a lower-left-arm transistor connected in series, the right arm comprises an upper-right-arm transistor and a lower-right-arm transistor connected in series, and the primary side coil is connected between a connection point of the left arm and a connection point of the right arm,
the secondary side electric power conversion circuit comprises, between a secondary side positive electrode bus and a secondary side negative electrode bus, a left arm, a right arm, and a secondary side coil, wherein the left arm comprises an upper-left-arm transistor and a lower-left-arm transistor connected in series, the right arm comprises an upper-right-arm transistor and a lower-right-arm transistor connected in series, and the secondary side coil is connected between a connection point of the left arm and a connection point of the right arm, and
the control circuit sets at least one of a half-bridge phase difference between the lower-left-arm transistor and the lower-right-arm transistor of the primary side electric power conversion circuit and a half-bridge phase difference between the lower-left-arm transistor and the lower-right-arm transistor of the secondary side electric power conversion circuit based on OFF periods of the primary side electric power conversion circuit and the secondary side electric power conversion circuit and based on dead-times of the primary side electric power conversion circuit and the secondary side electric power conversion circuit, so that, when a duty ratio between the left arm and the right arm of the primary side electric power conversion circuit differs from a duty ratio between the left arm and the right arm of the secondary side electric power conversion circuit, a current between the primary side electric power conversion circuit and the secondary side electric power conversion circuit is zero in a non-transmission period of the electric power.

2. The electric power conversion circuit system according to claim 1 , wherein
the control circuit sets at least one of the half-bridge phase difference between the lower-left-arm transistor and the lower-right-arm transistor of the primary side electric power conversion circuit and the half-bridge phase difference between the lower-left-arm transistor and the lower-right-arm transistor of the secondary side electric power conversion circuit based further on an amount of change of an input voltage.

3. The electric power conversion circuit system according to claim 1 , wherein
the control circuit sets the half-bridge phase difference between the lower-left-arm transistor and the lower-right-arm transistor of the primary side electric power conversion circuit based on the OFF period of the secondary side electric power. conversion circuit, and
the control circuit sets the half-bridge phase difference between the lower-left-arm transistor and the lower-right-arm transistor of the secondary side electric power conversion circuit based on the OFF period and the dead-time of the primary side electric power conversion circuit.

4. The electric power conversion circuit system according to claim 2 , wherein
the control circuit sets the half-bridge phase difference between the lower-left-arm transistor and the lower-right-arm transistor of the primary side electric power conversion circuit based on the OFF period of the secondary side electric power conversion circuit, and
the control circuit sets the half-bridge phase difference between the lower-left-arm transistor and the lower-right-arm transistor of the secondary side electric power conversion circuit based on the OFF period and the dead-time of the primary side electric power conversion circuit, and on the amount of change of the input voltage.

5. The electric power conversion circuit system according to claim 1 , wherein
the primary side coil comprises a coil and a transformer-primary side coil magnetically coupled to each other, and
the secondary side coil comprises a transformer-secondary side coil and a coil connected to an intermediate point of the transformer-secondary-side coil.

6. The electric power conversion circuit system according to claim 1 , wherein
the primary side coil comprises a transformer-primary side coil and a coil connected to an intermediate point of the transformer-primary side coil, and
the secondary side coil comprises a coil and a transformer-secondary side coil magnetically coupled to each other.

Assignees

• Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho Kk
• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Takagi Kenichi
• Ishigaki Masanori
• Sugiyama Takahide
• Umeno Takaji
• Nagashita Kenichiro
• Hirano Takahiro
• Muto Jun

Classifications

• H02M3/33561

  having more than one ouput with independent control · CPC title

• H02M3/33584 Primary

  Bidirectional converters · CPC title

• H02M2001/0022

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H02M1/0022

  the disturbance parameters being input voltage fluctuations · CPC title