Power conversion device and air-conditioning apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9712071-B2
Application number	US-201314908177-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 26, 2013
Priority date	Sep 26, 2013
Publication date	Jul 18, 2017
Grant date	Jul 18, 2017

Abstract

A power conversion device includes: a rectifier, a converter unit including a reactor, a backflow prevention element, and a switching element, the converter unit being configured to boost a DC voltage rectified by the rectifier, a smoothing capacitor, a reactor current detection unit, a bus voltage detection unit, a temperature detection unit, and a control unit. The control unit includes a converter control unit configured to calculate a switching command value for driving the switching element, on the basis of a target command voltage which is the bus voltage to be targeted, the bus voltage detected by the bus voltage detection unit, and the reactor current detected by the reactor current detection unit, and a temperature correction unit configured to correct the temperature of the switching element detected by the temperature detection unit, on the basis of the switching command value calculated by the converter control unit.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A power conversion device comprising:
a rectifier configured to rectify an input voltage supplied from an AC power supply;
a converter including a reactor connected to an output end of the rectifier, a backflow prevention element connected in series to the reactor, and a switching element connected between the reactor and the backflow prevention element, the converter being configured to boost a DC voltage rectified by the rectifier;
a smoothing capacitor configured to smooth a bus voltage outputted from the converter;
a reactor current detector configured to detect a reactor current flowing through the reactor;
a bus voltage detector configured to detect the bus voltage;
a temperature detector configured to detect a temperature of the switching element;
a converter control unit configured to calculate a switching command value for driving the switching element, on a basis of a target command voltage which is the bus voltage to be targeted, the bus voltage detected by the bus voltage detector, and the reactor current detected by the reactor current detector; and
a temperature correction unit configured to correct the temperature of the switching element detected by the temperature detector, on a basis of the switching command value calculated by the converter control unit.

2. The power conversion device of claim 1 , further comprising:
a storage unit configured to store a correction table or a correction function showing a relationship between the switching command value and a correction amount of the temperature corrected by the temperature correction unit; and wherein
the temperature correction unit corrects the temperature of the switching element detected by the temperature detector, by using, as the switching command value, a switching command value calculated during accrual operation, on a basis of the switching command value and the correction table or the correction function stored in the storage unit.

3. The power conversion device of claim 2 , wherein
the rectifier, the switching element, and the backflow prevention element are integrated in a module, and
the correction table or the correction function is set on a basis of a distance between the temperature detector and the switching element within the module.

4. The power conversion device of claim 1 , wherein the converter control unit averages the switching command value which pulsates in a cycle which is six times that of the AC power supply.

5. The power conversion device of claim 1 , further comprising:
a fault suppression control unit configured to instruct each component to perform an operation for suppressing a fault, on a basis of the temperature corrected by the temperature correction unit.

6. The power conversion device of claim 5 , further comprising:
a threshold determination unit configured to determine whether the temperature corrected by the temperature correction unit exceeds a preset first threshold, and determine whether the temperature corrected by the temperature correction unit exceeds a preset second threshold.

7. The power conversion device of claim 6 , wherein when the threshold determination unit determines that the temperature corrected by the temperature correction unit exceeds the first threshold, the fault suppression control unit instructs the converter control unit to decrease output of the converter.

8. The power conversion device of claim 6 , further comprising:
an inverter unit configured to convert the bus voltage smoothed by the smoothing capacitor, to an AC voltage; and
an inverter control unit configured to control operation of the inverter unit, wherein
when the threshold determination unit determines that the temperature corrected by the temperature correction unit exceeds the first threshold, the fault suppression control unit instructs the inverter control unit to decrease output of the inverter unit.

9. The power conversion device of claim 6 , wherein when the threshold determination unit determines that the temperature corrected by the temperature correction unit exceeds the second threshold, the fault suppression control unit instructs abnormal stop.

10. The power conversion device of claim 6 , wherein the first threshold is lower than the second threshold.

11. The power conversion device of claim 6 , wherein the second threshold is set to a temperature lower than a heat resistance temperature of the switching element.

12. The power conversion device of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the switching element and the backflow prevention element is composed of a wide band gap semiconductor.

13. An air-conditioning apparatus comprising:
the power conversion device of claim 1 ; and
a motor driven by the power conversion device.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Yuasa Kenta
• Kusube Shinsaku
• Tsumura Akihiro

Classifications

• H02M5/458 Primary

  using semiconductor devices only · CPC title

• H02P27/06

  using DC to AC converters or inverters (H02P27/05 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H02P2201/09

  Boost converter, i.e. DC-DC step up converter increasing the voltage between the supply and the inverter driving the motor · CPC title

• H02M7/04

  by static converters · CPC title

• H02M2001/007

  Electricity · mapped topic