Air-conditioner power supply system for multi-system train car

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9796271-B2
Application number	US-201214111011-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 29, 2012
Priority date	Jun 3, 2011
Publication date	Oct 24, 2017
Grant date	Oct 24, 2017

Abstract

There is provided an air-conditioning apparatus including an auxiliary power supply that, when a voltage from an overhead line extending over sections powered by different power sources is stepped down with a transformer, converts the voltage into a low-voltage DC voltage and that, when a voltage from the overhead line is a DC voltage, is directly fed with the voltage and converts it into the low-voltage DC voltage that is the same as the converted DC voltage, and further including an inverter device that converts the DC voltage from the auxiliary power supply into an AC voltage and that supplies the AC voltage to a drive unit of a refrigeration cycle apparatus.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An air-conditioner power supply system for a multi-system train car, comprising:
a transformer that, when a voltage from an overhead line extending over sections powered by different power sources is a high-voltage AC voltage, is configured to step down the high-voltage AC voltage into a low-voltage AC voltage,
an auxiliary power supply device that, when the low-voltage AC voltage stepped down with the transformer is input, converts the low-voltage AC voltage into a low-voltage DC voltage and that, when a voltage from the overhead line is a DC voltage, is directly fed with the DC voltage and converts it into a low-voltage DC voltage that is same as the converted low-voltage DC voltage; and
an air-conditioning apparatus including an inverter device that converts the DC voltage from the auxiliary power supply device into an AC voltage and that supplies the AC voltage to a drive unit of a refrigeration cycle apparatus.

2. The air-conditioner power supply system for a multi-system train car of claim 1 , wherein the auxiliary power supply device and an air-conditioning apparatus that is close to the auxiliary power supply device among a plurality of the air-conditioning apparatuses, and, further, the air-conditioning apparatuses are connected through an equipment line of a single system, the equipment line being equipped in a train car.

3. An air-conditioner power supply system for a multi-system train car, comprising:
a transformer that, when a voltage from an overhead line extending over sections powered by different power sources is a high-voltage AC voltage, is configured to step down the high-voltage AC voltage into a low-voltage AC voltage,
an auxiliary power supply device that, when the low-voltage AC voltage stepped down with the transformer is input, outputs the low-voltage AC voltage and that, when a voltage from the overhead line is a high-voltage DC voltage, is directly fed with the high-voltage DC voltage from the overhead line and converts it into a low-voltage DC voltage; and
an air-conditioning apparatus including
a rectifier unit that, when the low-voltage DC voltage is input from the auxiliary power supply device, converts the DC voltage into a predetermined DC voltage and that, when the AC voltage is input from the auxiliary power supply device, converts the AC voltage into the predetermined DC voltage same as the converted DC voltage, and
a frequency varying unit that converts the predetermined DC voltage from the rectifier unit into an AC voltage and that supplies the AC voltage to a drive unit of a refrigeration cycle apparatus.

4. The air-conditioner power supply system for a multi-system train car of claim 3 , wherein when a three-phase AC voltage from an external power supply other than the auxiliary power supply device is input to the rectifier unit, the rectifier unit converts the three-phase AC voltage into a predetermined DC voltage and supplies the predetermined DC voltage to the frequency varying unit.

5. The air-conditioner power supply system for a multi-system train car of claim 3 , wherein the auxiliary power supply device and an air-conditioning apparatus that is close to the auxiliary power supply device among a plurality of the air-conditioning apparatuses, and, further, the air-conditioning apparatuses are connected through an equipment line of a single system, the equipment line being equipped in a train car.

Assignees

• Yoshimura Keiji
• Umezaki Tatsuaki
• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Yoshimura Keiji
• Umezaki Tatsuaki

Classifications

• B60L2270/46

  Heat pumps, e.g. for cabin heating · CPC title

• B60L1/003 Primary

  to auxiliary motors, e.g. for pumps, compressors · CPC title

• B60L2240/34

  Cabin temperature · CPC title

• Y02T10/7241

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• B60L15/20

  for control of the vehicle or its driving motor to achieve a desired performance, e.g. speed, torque, programmed variation of speed · CPC title