Compact uninterruptible power supply apparatus with cooling units

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9548630-B2
Application number	US-200913202478-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 18, 2009
Priority date	Mar 18, 2009
Publication date	Jan 17, 2017
Grant date	Jan 17, 2017

Abstract

An uninterruptible power supply apparatus includes a cooler cooling a converter/chopper circuit and a cooler cooling a PWM inverter. The converter/chopper circuit and the cooler make up one integrated unit. Accordingly, a smaller apparatus can be achieved, compared with a conventional apparatus in which a cooler is provided for each of a converter and a chopper.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An uninterruptible power supply apparatus, comprising:
a combined converter/chopper circuit configured to convert a first AC power to DC power that is stored in a power storage device and to output the DC power stored in the power storage device during a power failure in which supply of the first AC power is stopped;
an inverter to convert the DC power output by the combined converter/chopper circuit to a second AC power,
said first AC power being three-phase AC power, and
said combined converter/chopper circuit including three combined converter/chopper sub-circuits corresponding to three phases of said first AC power, respectively;
a plurality of first coolers, each provided to a corresponding one of said combined converter/chopper sub-circuit to cool the corresponding one of said three combined converter/chopper sub-circuits; and
a second cooler to cool said inverter,
each of said combined converter/chopper sub-circuits and a corresponding one of said plurality of first coolers corresponding to the sub-converter making up a single unit,
said inverter and said second cooler making up a single unit,
each of said plurality of first coolers including
a first flat plate portion having a first surface on which the corresponding one of said three combined converter/chopper sub-circuits is mounted, and
a plurality of first fins provided on a second surface of said first flat plate portion,
said second cooler including
a second flat plate portion having a third surface on which said inverter is mounted, and
a plurality of second fins provided on a fourth surface of said second flat plate portion,
each of said combined converter/chopper sub-circuits including a plurality of first switching elements connected in series between a first node and a second node and a plurality of first diodes connected in antiparallel to said plurality of first switching elements, respectively, a plurality of second switching elements connected in series between said first node and said second node and a plurality of second diodes connected in antiparallel to said plurality of second switching elements, respectively,
wherein a cooling capacity of each of said plurality of first coolers is one third of a cooling capacity of said second cooler.

2. The uninterruptible power supply apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a capacitor provided correspondingly to each single unit and connected between said first node and said second node;
a first fuse provided correspondingly to each single unit and connected between a first DC voltage node and said first node; and
a second fuse provided correspondingly to each single unit and connected between a second DC voltage node and said second node,
said capacitor, said first fuse and said second fuse are mounted on said first surface of said first flat plate portion.

3. An uninterruptible power supply apparatus, comprising:
a combined converter/chopper circuit configured to convert a first AC power to DC power that is stored in a power storage device and to output the DC power stored in the power storage device during a power failure in which supply of the first AC power is stopped;
an inverter to convert the DC power output by the combined converter/chopper circuit to a second AC power,
said first AC power being three-phase AC power,
said combined converter/chopper circuit including three combined converter/chopper sub-circuits corresponding to three phases of said first AC power, respectively, and
said inverter including three sub-inverters provided corresponding to said three combined converter/chopper sub-circuits, respectively; and
a plurality of coolers, each provided to a corresponding one of said combined converter/chopper sub-circuits to cool the corresponding one of the three combined converter/chopper sub-circuits and a corresponding one of said three sub-inverters,
each of said three combined converter/chopper sub-circuits and corresponding one of said three sub-inverters, and a corresponding one of the plurality of coolers making up a single unit,
each of said plurality of coolers including
a flat plate portion having a first surface on which a corresponding one of the combined converter/chopper sub-circuits and a corresponding one of said three sub-inverters are mounted, and
a plurality of fins provided on a second surface of said flat plate portion,

each of said combined converter/chopper sub-circuits including a plurality of first switching elements connected in series between a first node and a second node, a plurality of first diodes connected in antiparallel to said plurality of first switching elements, respectively, a plurality of second switching elements connected in series between said first node and said second node and a plurality of second diodes connected in antiparallel to said plurality of second switching elements, respectively, and
each of said sub-inverters including a plurality of third switching elements connected in series between said first node and said second node and a plurality of third diodes connected in antiparallel to said plurality of third switching elements, respectively,
wherein a cooling capacity of each of said plurality of coolers is two thirds of a cooling capacity necessary for cooling said three sub-inverters.

4. The uninterruptible power supply apparatus according to claim 3 , further comprising:
a capacitor provided correspondingly to each single unit and connected between said first node and said second node;
a first fuse provided correspondingly to each single unit and connected between a first DC voltage node and said first node; and
a second fuse provided correspondingly to each single unit and connected between a second DC voltage node and said second node,
said capacitor, said first fuse and said second fuse are mounted on a first surface of said flat plate portion of a corresponding cooler out of said plurality of coolers.

Assignees

• Sato Eduardo Kazuhide
• Kinoshita Masahiro
• Yamamoto Yushin
• Amboh Tatsuaki
• Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Ind Systems Corp

Inventors

• Sato Eduardo Kazuhide
• Kinoshita Masahiro
• Yamamoto Yushin
• Amboh Tatsuaki

Classifications

• H05K7/209 Primary

  Heat transfer by conduction from internal heat source to heat radiating structure (H05K7/20909 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H02M7/003

  Constructional details, e.g. physical layout, assembly, wiring or busbar connections · CPC title

• H02J9/062 Primary

  for AC powered loads · CPC title

• H02M3/155

  using semiconductor devices only · CPC title

• H02M5/458

  using semiconductor devices only · CPC title