MATRIX CONVERTER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MATRIX CONVERTER

• US 20150137779A1
• Filed: 01/26/2015
• Published: 05/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
• Inventors: TAKASE, Yoshiyasu, HARA, Hidenori, MORIMOTO, Shinya
• Application Number:
  US14/604,756
• Publication Number:
  US 20150137779A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 323/273
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/158 including plural semiconductor devices as final control devices for a single load
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 5/297 for conversion of frequency

Abstract

A matrix converter according to an embodiment includes a plurality of bidirectional switches disposed between an AC power source and an AC load, and a controller that controls the bidirectional switches. The controller corrects an output voltage reference based on an oscillation component of an input current and/or an input voltage from the AC power source.

Claims

1. A matrix converter comprising:

a plurality of bidirectional switches that are disposed between an alternating current (AC) power source and an AC load; and

a controller that controls the bidirectional switches to directly convert an input power input from the AC power source into an output power to be output to the AC load, wherein

the controller includes

an output voltage reference generator that generates an output voltage reference defining an output voltage to be output to the AC load,

a corrector that corrects the output voltage reference based on an oscillation component of an input current and/or an input voltage input from the AC power source, and

a switch driver that controls the bidirectional switches based on the output voltage reference corrected by the corrector.

2. The matrix converter according to claim 1, wherein

the corrector includes

a first arithmetic unit that calculates an output power correction value based on the oscillation component of the input current and/or the input voltage,

a second arithmetic unit that calculates a voltage correction value according to the output power correction value, and

an adder that corrects the output voltage reference by adding the voltage correction value generated by the second arithmetic unit to the output voltage reference.

3. The matrix converter according to claim 2, wherein the second arithmetic unit calculates the voltage correction value by dividing the output power correction value calculated by the first arithmetic unit by an output current reference defining an output current to be output to the AC load.

4. The matrix converter according to claim 3, wherein the first arithmetic unit calculates the output power correction value by multiplying the oscillation component of the input current by a predetermined coefficient.

5. The matrix converter according to claim 3, wherein the first arithmetic unit advances a phase of the oscillation component of the input voltage, and calculates the output power correction value by multiplying the phase-advanced oscillation component by a predetermined coefficient.

6. The matrix converter according to claim 3, wherein the first arithmetic unit calculates the output power correction value by multiplying the oscillation component of the input current and the oscillation component of the input voltage.

7. The matrix converter according to claim 6, wherein the first arithmetic unit calculates the output power correction value by multiplying a multiplication result of the oscillation component of the input current and the oscillation component of the input voltage by a predetermined coefficient.

8. The matrix converter according to claim 4, wherein the predetermined coefficient is set from an outside in the first arithmetic unit.

9. The matrix converter according to claim 4, further comprising an adjustment unit that adjusts the predetermined coefficient.

10. The matrix converter according to claim 1, wherein

the output voltage reference generator generates, as the output voltage references, a q-axis voltage reference and a d-axis voltage reference on d-q axes in a two-axis orthogonal coordinate system rotating in synchronization with a frequency of the output voltage, and

the corrector corrects the q-axis voltage reference or the d-axis voltage reference based on the oscillation component of the input current and/or the input voltage.

11. A method for controlling a matrix converter, the method comprising:

generating an output voltage reference defining an output voltage to be output to an AC load;

correcting the output voltage reference based on any one of or both of an oscillation component of an input current and an input voltage input from an AC power source; and

controlling a plurality of bidirectional switches, which are disposed between the AC power source and the AC load, based on the corrected output voltage reference.