Power converter

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9559603-B2
Application number	US-201514944827-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 18, 2015
Priority date	Nov 26, 2014
Publication date	Jan 31, 2017
Grant date	Jan 31, 2017

Abstract

A power converter including: a transformer; a primary-side full-bridge circuit including a primary-side coil of the transformer and a magnetically-coupled reactor, in which two reactors connected to both ends of the primary-side coil are magnetically coupled; a first port connected to a positive electrode bus bar of the primary-side full-bridge circuit; a second port connected to a tap of the primary-side coil; a secondary-side full-bridge circuit including a secondary-side coil of the transformer; a third port connected to a positive electrode bus bar of the secondary-side full-bridge circuit; a first search coil wound around a core of the magnetically-coupled reactor; a second search coil wound around a core of the transformer; and a detection circuit detecting voltages of the first port and the third port by measuring a variation in a sense voltage generated by combining voltages of the first search coil and the second search coil.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A power converter comprising:
a transformer having a primary-side coil and a secondary-side coil;
a primary-side full-bridge circuit including a bridge section that has: the primary-side coil; and a magnetically-coupled reactor that is configured by magnetically coupling two reactors connected to both ends of the primary-side coil;
a first port connected to a positive electrode bus bar of the primary-side full-bridge circuit;
a second port connected to a tap of the primary-side coil;
a secondary-side full-bridge circuit including a bridge section having the secondary-side coil;
a third port connected to a positive electrode bus bar of the secondary-side full-bridge circuit;
a first search coil wound around a core of the magnetically-coupled reactor;
a second search coil wound around a core of the transformer; and
a detection circuit detecting a voltage of the first port and a voltage of the third port by measuring a variation in a sense voltage that is generated by combining a voltage of the first search coil and a voltage of the second search coil among the voltage of the first search coil, the voltage of the second search coil, and the voltage of the first port.

2. The power converter according to claim 1 , wherein
the primary-side full-bridge circuit has a first upper arm, a first lower arm connected in series to the first upper arm, a second upper arm, and a second lower arm connected in series to the second upper arm,
the secondary-side full-bridge circuit has a first upper arm, a first lower arm connected in series to the first upper arm, a second upper arm, and a second lower arm connected in series to the second upper arm,
a period in which the first upper arm and the second lower arm are turned on and the second upper arm and the first lower arm are turned off in regard to both of the primary-side full-bridge circuit and the secondary-side full-bridge circuit is set as a first period,
a period in which the first lower arm and the second lower arm are turned on and the first upper arm and the second upper arm are turned off in regard to both of the primary-side full-bridge circuit and the secondary-side full-bridge circuit is set as a second period,
a period in which the first lower arm and the second upper arm are turned on and the first upper arm and the second lower arm are turned off in regard to both of the primary-side full-bridge circuit and the secondary-side full-bridge circuit is set as a third period,
the detection circuit detects the voltage of the first port on the basis of a first measurement value that is obtained by measuring the sense voltage in the first period, a second measurement value that is obtained by measuring the sense voltage in the second period, and a third measurement value that is obtained by measuring the sense voltage in the third period, and
the detection circuit detects the voltage of the third port on the basis of the first measurement value and the third measurement value.

3. The power converter according to claim 2 , wherein
the first measurement value, the second measurement value, the third measurement value, the number of turns of the secondary-side coil, and the number of turns of the second search coil are respectively set as V R _ A , V R _ B , V R _ C , Tb, and Tsb, and the detection circuit computes the voltage of the first port on the basis of (V R _ C −V R _ B )−(V R _ C −V R _ A )/2 and computes the voltage of the third port on the basis of (V R _ C −V R _ A )/2×(Tb/Tsb).

4. The power converter according to claim 1 , wherein
one end of the first search coil is connected to the positive electrode bus bar of the primary-side full-bridge circuit.

5. The power converter according to claim 1 , wherein
one end of the first search coil is connected to a ground reference of the primary-side full-bridge circuit.

6. The power converter according to claim 1 , wherein
the detection circuit has an absolute value circuit.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Usami Tomohiro

Classifications

• H02M3/33584 Primary

  Bidirectional converters · CPC title

• H02M3/33561

  having more than one ouput with independent control · CPC title