FEEDBACK CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR POWER CONVERTER AND POWER CONVERTER SYSTEM

• US 20140009982A1
• Filed: 01/14/2013
• Published: 01/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Delta Electronics Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Delta Electronics Incorporated
• Inventors: Wang, Bin, Wu, Hongyang, Li, Zhengrong, Wang, Shouyan, Zhan, Wentao
• Application Number:
  US13/741,222
• Publication Number:
  US 20140009982A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 363/40
• CPC Class Codes: G05F 1/10 Regulating voltage or current G05F1/02 takes precedence; for electric railways B60M3/02
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0012 Control circuits using digital or numerical techniques in DC/DC converters H02M3/157, H02M3/33515; in DC-AC converters H02M7/53873
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/14 Arrangements for reducing ripples from dc input or output
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/157 with digital control
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/53873 with digital control

Abstract

A feedback control circuit for a power converter and a power converter system, includes a sampling network, configured to sample an input or output of the power converter, and output a first sampled signal; a filtering network, configured to receive the first sampled signal and output a second sampled signal, the filtering network filtering a ripple signal at a preset frequency out from the first sampled signal, so as to remain signals therein outside the preset frequency, while maintaining a phase delay between the second sampled signal and the first sampled signal within a preset range; a control and drive circuit, configured to receive the second sampled signal, and regulate in accordance with the second sampled signal a control signal outputted from the control and drive circuit to the power converter.

Claims

1. A feedback control circuit for a power converter, comprising:

a sampling network, configured to sample an input of the power converter or an output of the power converter, and output a first sampled signal;

a filtering network, configured to receive the first sampled signal, and output a second sampled signal;

the filtering network filtering a ripple signal at a preset frequency out from the first sampled signal, so as to remain signals in the first sampled signal outside the preset frequency, while maintaining a phase delay of the second sampled signal relative to the first sampled signal within a preset range;

a control and drive circuit, configured to receive the second sampled signal, and regulate a control signal that is to be outputted from the control and drive circuit to the power converter in accordance with the second sampled signal.

2. The feedback control circuit according to claim 1, wherein the ripple signal at the preset frequency includes a ripple signal at a switching level frequency, or ripple signals at the switching level frequency and at frequencies close to the switching level frequency.

3. The feedback control circuit according to claim 1, wherein the filtering network is configured as a passive notch filter.

4. The feedback control circuit according to claim 3, wherein the passive notch filter comprises N notch branches connected in parallel with each other, where N is a natural number and is greater than or equal to 1.

5. The feedback control circuit according to claim 4, wherein each of the N notch branches comprises at least one notch inductor and at least one notch capacitor, and the notch inductor and the notch capacitor are connected in series.

6. The feedback control circuit according to claim 1, wherein the filtering network is an active band-stop filter, with a stopband bandwidth of the active band-stop filter covering a range within which the ripple signal at the preset frequency falls.

7. The feedback control circuit according to claim 6, wherein the active band-stop filter comprises a low-pass filter, a high-pass filter and a signal processing circuit, the low-pass filter and the high-pass filter performing band-stop filtering to the first sampled signal and then outputting the first sampled signal to the signal processing circuit, and the signal processing circuit outputting the second sampled signal to the control and drive circuit.

8. The feedback control circuit according to claim 7, wherein the signal processing circuit is configured as a summing operational amplifier circuit.

9. The feedback control circuit according to claim 1, wherein the filtering network is configured as a digital notch filter comprising a digital band-stop filter unit, with a stopband bandwidth of the digital band-stop filter unit covering a range within which the ripple signal at the preset frequency falls.

10. The feedback control circuit according to claim 9, wherein the digital notch filter is configured as an infinite impulse response digital filter or a finite impulse response digital filter.

11. The feedback control circuit according to claim 1, wherein the control and drive circuit comprises a PWM control unit and a drive circuit, the PWM control unit receiving the second sampled signal, performing PWM modulation to the second sampled signal, and feeding the modulated second sampled signal back to the power converter via the drive circuit.

12. A power converter system, comprising:

a power converter, configured to perform electrical energy conversion; and

a feedback control circuit according to claims 1, configured to be connected to the power converter, and regulate an input of the power converter or an output of the power converter.

13. The power converter system according to claim 12, wherein the power converter is configured as a PWM-type power converter.

14. The power converter system according to claim 12, wherein the power converter is configured as an inverter.

15. The power converter system according to claim 14, wherein the inverter is configured as a multi-level inverter.

16. The power converter system according to claim 12, wherein the power converter system is applied to an active power filter or a static var generator.