Electric motor vehicle main circuit system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9656555-B2
Application number	US-201214373997-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 30, 2012
Priority date	Jan 30, 2012
Publication date	May 23, 2017
Grant date	May 23, 2017

Abstract

An electric motor vehicle main circuit system includes an AC-DC switching circuit switching a supply destination of electric power according to a type of supplied power from an overhead wire, a transformer, a tap changer switching tap positions of the transformer, a CNV converting an output of the tap changer into a direct-current voltage, an AC contactor opening and closing a power supply path between the tap changer and the CNV, an FC accumulating an output of the CNV or the overhead wire, a CH stepping up an output of the FC, an FC accumulating an output of the CH, an INV converting an output of the FC into a desired alternating-current voltage, a DC contactor opening and closing a power supply path between the AC-DC switching circuit and the CH, and a control section controlling the tap changer, the AC contactor, the DC contactor, the CNV, and the CH.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electric motor vehicle main circuit system configured to be capable of being housed in a vehicle control device that forms a part of an electric motor vehicle driving system,
an AC-DC switching circuit that switches a supply destination of electric power according to a type of supplied power from an overhead wire and a transformer that includes two tap positions on a secondary winding wire side, steps down an input alternating-current voltage, and outputs a desired alternating-current voltage from the two tap positions being provided in the electric motor vehicle driving system, and
alternating-current by a first alternating-current power supply, alternating-current power by a second alternating-current power supply having an higher output voltage than the first alternating-current power supply, direct-current power by a first direct-current power supply, and direct-current power by a second direct-current power supply having a higher output voltage than the first direct-current power supply being assumed as the type of the supplied power,
the electric motor vehicle main circuit system comprising:
a tap changer that switches the tap positions of the transformer;
a converter that converts an alternating-current voltage output by the tap changer into a desired direct-current voltage;
an alternating-current contactor that opens and closes a power supply path between the tap changer and the converter;
a first filter capacitor that accumulates direct-current power output by the converter or direct-current power supplied from the overhead wire;
a chopper circuit that steps up a direct-current voltage output by the first filter capacitor to a desired direct-current voltage;
a second filter capacitor that accumulates direct-current power output by the chopper circuit;
an inverter that converts a direct-current voltage output by the second filter capacitor into a desired alternating-current voltage;
a direct-current contactor that opens and closes supply of direct-current power from the AC-DC switching circuit; and
a control section that controls the tap changer, the alternating-current contactor, the direct-current contactor, the converter, and the chopper circuit on the basis of information concerning a voltage of the overhead wire and command information from an outside,
the tap changer, the converter, the alternating-current contactor, the first filter capacitor, the chopper circuit, the second filter capacitor, the inverter, the direct-current contactor, and the control section being configured to be capable of being housed in the vehicle control device, wherein
when the first direct-current power supply is not used among the first and second alternating-current power supplies and the first and second direct-current power supplies, the electric motor vehicle main circuit system is configured by removing the chopper circuit.

2. The electric motor vehicle main circuit system according to claim 1 , wherein, when the second direct-current power supply is not used either, the electric motor vehicle main circuit system is configured by removing the AC-DC switching circuit and the direct-current contactor.

3. The electric motor vehicle main circuit system according to claim 2 , wherein, when the second alternating-current power supply is not used either, the electric motor vehicle main circuit system is configured by fixing the tap positions of the tap changer in predetermined tap positions or removing the tap changer.

4. The electric motor vehicle main circuit system according to claim 2 , wherein, when the first alternating-current power supply is not used either, the electric motor vehicle main circuit system is configured by fixing the tap positions of the tap changer in predetermined tap positions or removing the tap changer.

5. The electric motor vehicle main circuit system according to claim 1 , wherein, when the second alternating-current power supply is not used either, the electric motor vehicle main circuit system is configured by fixing the tap positions of the tap changer in predetermined tap positions or removing the tap changer.

6. The electric motor vehicle main circuit system according to claim 5 , wherein, when the second direct-current power supply is not used either, the electric motor vehicle main circuit system is configured by removing the AC-DC switching circuit and the direct-current contactor.

7. The electric motor vehicle main circuit system according to claim 5 , wherein, when the first alternating-current power supply is not used either, the electric motor vehicle main circuit system is configured by removing the AC-DC switching circuit and the alternating-current contactor.

8. The electric motor vehicle main circuit system according to claim 1 , wherein, when the first alternating-current power supply is not used either, the electric motor vehicle main circuit system is configured by fixing the tap positions of the tap changer in predetermined tap positions or removing the tap changer.

9. The electric motor vehicle main circuit system according to claim 8 , wherein, when the second alternating-current power supply is not used either, the electric motor vehicle main circuit system is configured by removing the AC-DC switching circuit and the alternating-current contactor.

10. The electric motor vehicle main circuit system according to claim 1 , wherein
the electric motor vehicle main circuit system is configured as a water cooling system that circulates cooling water from a water cooling device to cool a body to be cooled,
the water cooling device is configured to be capable of being housed in the vehicle control device,
a distribution block for leading the cooling water from the water cooling device to a water cooling plate mounted with the body to be cooled and returning the cooling water after the cooling to the water cooling device is provided between the water cooling device and a housing mounted with the electric motor vehicle main circuit system, and
the distribution block and the water cooling plate is connected by a flexible tube.

Assignees

• Matsumoto Takeo
• Nagatsuka Yoshio
• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Matsumoto Takeo
• Nagatsuka Yoshio

Classifications

• B60L9/30 Primary

  fed from different kinds of power-supply lines · CPC title

• B60W10/00

  Conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function (for propulsion of purely electrically-propelled vehicles with power supplied within the vehicle B60L50/00 - B60L58/00) · CPC title

• B60L2210/30

  AC to DC converters · CPC title

• B60L2210/40

  DC to AC converters · CPC title

• B60L7/06

  for vehicles propelled by AC motors · CPC title