Uniterruptible power supply and its starting method

• US 20040108836A1
• Filed: 09/24/2003
• Published: 06/10/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Manabu, Matsuda, Kensaku
• Granted Patent: US 6,853,097 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/128
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 9/062 for AC powered loads
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/32 Means for protecting converters other than automatic disconnection
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/36 Means for starting or stopping converters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 5/458 using semiconductor devices only

Abstract

The present invention provides an uniterruptible electric power supply capable of inhibiting an excessively high intensity of inrush electric current at the time of start even when the inrush electric current inhibiting resistor 3 is not used.

Claims

1. An uniterruptible electric power supply comprising:

a converter section for converting AC electric power of an AC electric power supply into DC electric power;

a battery used as an electric power supply in the case of start and also in the case of electric power failure;

a condenser for storing DC voltage converted by the converter section or DC voltage supplied from the battery;

an inverter section for converting DC voltage of the condenser into AC electric power; and

a control section for controlling so that the condenser is electrically charged by the battery at the time of start and the electric power supply is changed over from the battery to the AC electric power supply after voltage of the condenser has reached a predetermined value.

2. A method of starting an uniterruptible electric power supply, at the time of start in which a condenser, which becomes a DC electric power supply of an inverter section for converting DC voltage into AC electric power, is not electrically charged, comprising the steps of:

charging the condenser by a battery; and

changing over from the battery to an AC electric power supply after the condenser has been charged to a predetermined voltage.

3. An uniterruptible electric power supply comprising:

a common line for connecting one end of an AC electric power supply with one end of an AC output;

a positive electrode side voltage line and a negative electrode side voltage line which respectively become a positive electrode side and a negative electrode side of DC formed at both ends of diodes connected with each other in series, a connecting point of the diodes connected with each other in series being connected with the other end of the AC electric-power supply;

a first condenser connected between the common line and the voltage line on the positive electrode side;

a second condenser connected between the common line and the voltage line on the negative electrode side;

a battery, the negative electrode side of which is connected with the common line;

a negative electrode side boosting section semiconductor switch, one end collector side of which is connected with the positive electrode side of the battery;

a negative electrode side boosting section reactor connected between the other end emitter side of the negative electrode side boosting section semiconductor switch and the common line;

a negative electrode side boosting section diode, one end on the cathode of which is connected with the other end on the emitter side of the negative electrode side boosting section semiconductor switch, the other end on the anode side of which is connected with the negative electrode voltage line;

a first semiconductor switch of a balance section and a second semiconductor switch of the balance section connected with each other in series between the positive electrode voltage line and the negative electrode voltage line;

a first diode of the balance section and a second diode of the balance section which are respectively connected with the first semiconductor switch of the balance section and the second semiconductor switch of the balance section in reverse parallel with each other;

a reactor of the balance section connected between a contacting point, at which the first semiconductor switch of the balance section and the second semiconductor switch of the balance section are contacted with each other, and the common line; and

a control section for turning on and off the negative electrode side boosting section semiconductor switch and the second semiconductor switch of the balance section, wherein

after the second condenser is electrically charged by the battery when the negative electrode side boosting section semiconductor switch is turned on and off at the time of start, the second semiconductor switch of the balance section is turned on and off so as to electrically charge the first condenser by utilizing voltage of the second condenser.

4. An uniterruptible electric power supply according to claim 3, wherein the control section changes over the electric power supply to the AC electric power supply after voltage of the first condenser and voltage of the second condenser are equilibrated to each other-and raised to a predetermined voltage.

5. A method of starting an uniterruptible electric power supply comprising:

a first step in which a second condenser is electrically charged to a voltage not lower than a predetermined voltage by using a battery at the time of start in which a first condenser connected between a common line, which connects one end of an AC electric power supply with one end of an AC output, and a positive electrode voltage line is not electrically charged and the second condenser connected between the common line and the negative electrode voltage line is not electrically charged;

a second step in which the first condenser is electrically charged by utilizing voltage of the second condenser until voltage of the first condenser and voltage of the second condenser are equilibrated to each other; and

a third step in which processing of the first and second steps is successively conducted until voltage of the first condenser and voltage of the second condenser are raised to a value not lower than a predetermined value, and electric power input is changed over from the battery to the AC power supply at the point of time when voltage of the first condenser and voltage of the second condenser are raised to a value not lower than a predetermined value.