CR snubber circuit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9570972-B2
Application number	US-201314364363-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 2, 2013
Priority date	Oct 2, 2013
Publication date	Feb 14, 2017
Grant date	Feb 14, 2017

Abstract

A CR snubber circuit capable of increasing a reduction effect of the effective inductance component and suppressing a ringing component generated at the time of switching the switching element is obtained. A first current path formed on one surface of the substrate and a second current path formed on the other surface, which is the opposite side of the one surface of the substrate, are opposed to each other with the substrate being sandwiched therebetween, and the capacitor 5 and the resistor 6 are arranged such that current flows in opposite directions in the first current path and the second current path, and a band elimination filter is formed by the capacitor 5 , the resistor 6 , and an effective inductance component obtained by coupling an inductance component included in the first current path and an inductance component included in the second current path.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A CR snubber circuit that is formed on a substrate and that includes a capacitor and a resistor that are connected in series between DC terminals that apply DC voltage to a power semiconductor module that is formed with inclusion of a switching element, wherein
a first current path formed on one surface of the substrate and a second current path formed on another surface, which is an opposite side of the one surface of the substrate, are opposed to each other with the substrate being sandwiched therebetween, the capacitor and the resistor are arranged such that current flows in opposite directions in the first current path and the second current path, and a band elimination filter is formed by the capacitor, the resistor, and an effective inductance component obtained by coupling an inductance component included in the first current path and an inductance component included in the second current path.

2. The CR snubber circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the resistor is capable of being mounted at a plurality of positions on the substrate.

3. The CR snubber circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the resistor is mounted singularly or a plurality of the resistors are mounted in parallel or in series.

4. The CR snubber circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the capacitor is capable of being mounted at a plurality of positions on the substrate.

5. The CR snubber circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the capacitor is mounted singularly or a plurality of the capacitors are mounted in parallel or in series.

6. The CR snubber circuit according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of the resistors are connected in series, and the resistors are arranged to be opposed to each other with the substrate being sandwiched therebetween.

7. The CR snubber circuit according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of the capacitors are connected in series, and the capacitors are arranged to be opposed to each other with the substrate being sandwiched therebetween.

8. The CR snubber circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the capacitor is configured by a discrete part.

9. The CR snubber circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the capacitor is formed using a substrate pattern on the substrate.

10. The CR snubber circuit according to claim 1 , wherein a pattern fuse is formed using a substrate pattern on the substrate.

11. The CR snubber circuit according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the capacitors connected in series is a film capacitor.

12. The CR snubber circuit according to claim 11 , wherein a capacitance of a capacitor other than the film capacitor is smaller than a capacitance of the film capacitor.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Kanda Mitsuhiko
• Tamura Shizuri
• Hatai Akira
• Sekimoto Yasuhiro
• Nojiri Yuji
• Hayashi Yoshitomo

Classifications

• H02H7/122

  for inverters, i.e. DC/AC converters · CPC title

• H02H9/045

  adapted to a particular application and not provided for elsewhere · CPC title

• H02M1/34 Primary

  Snubber circuits · CPC title

• H02M1/32

  Means for protecting converters other than automatic disconnection · CPC title

• H02M2001/346

  Electricity · mapped topic