Induction heating device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9554425-B2
Application number	US-201214002293-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 7, 2012
Priority date	Dec 6, 2011
Publication date	Jan 24, 2017
Grant date	Jan 24, 2017

Abstract

An induction heating device includes: a rectifying circuit that rectifies an AC power supply; a smoothing capacitor that smooths the rectified output to obtain a DC power supply; a first and a second inverters each composed of a heating coil, a resonance capacitor, and a switching element, and connected to the smoothing capacitor in parallel; a first and a second oscillating circuits that supply drive signals to the switching elements; and a controller that controls drive of the first and second oscillating circuits. The controller alternately drives the first and second oscillating circuits, and controls a drive time ratio of the first and second oscillating circuits so that a power change amount generated every time the drive is switched between the first and second oscillating circuits is not more than a predetermined amount.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An induction heating device comprising:
a rectifying circuit that rectifies an AC power supply;
a smoothing capacitor that smooths the rectified output to obtain a DC power supply;
a first and a second inverters each composed of a heating coil, a resonance capacitor, and a switching element, and connected to the smoothing capacitor in parallel;
a first and a second oscillating circuits that supply a first and a second drive signals to the switching elements respectively, the first and second drive signals each having a driving period in which driving pulses are supplied and a driving stop period in which the driving pulses are not supplied; and
a controller that controls drive of the first and second oscillating circuits,
wherein the controller alternately drives the first and second oscillating circuits, and varies a ratio of the driving period of the first drive signal to the driving period of the second drive signal in accordance with a power change amount generated every time the drive is switched between the first and second oscillating circuits so that the power change amount is not more than a predetermined amount.

2. The induction heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the controller alternately drives the first and second oscillating circuits, and when one output power of the first or second inverter is limited to a power smaller than a power required to obtain a set power, the controller reduces the other output power of the first or second inverter so that a difference between the output power of the first inverter and the output power of the second inverter is not more than the predetermined amount.

3. The induction heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined amount is not more than a power amount corresponding to a voltage change rate of the AC power supply in which a short-time flicker value Pst is one.

4. The induction heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the controller performs control such that a cycle time of the alternate drive of the first and second oscillating circuits is not more than 300 milliseconds, and number of drive switching operations between the first and second oscillating circuits per minute is not less than 400.

5. The induction heating device according to claim 1 , further comprising a zero-volt detecting circuit that detects a zero point of the AC power supply, wherein the controller switches the drive between the first and second oscillating circuits, based on timing at which the zero point of the AC power supply is detected by the zero-volt detecting circuit.

Assignees

• Sawada Daisuke
• Fujii Yuji
• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sawada Daisuke
• Fujii Yuji

Classifications

• H02M5/458

  using semiconductor devices only · CPC title

• H05B6/065 Primary

  using coordinated control of multiple induction coils · CPC title

• 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