UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLY DEVICE AND UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM USING THE SAME

• US 20180076657A1
• Filed: 04/01/2015
• Published: 03/15/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tmeic Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: NISHIMURA, Kazuki, MASUNAGA, Hiroshi, KINOSHITA, Masahiro
• Granted Patent: US 10,050,469 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/38 Arrangements for parallely feeding a single network by two or more generators, converters or transformers
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 9/06 with automatic change-over , e.g. UPS systems
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 9/062 for AC powered loads
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/158 including plural semiconductor devices as final control devices for a single load
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 5/4585 having a rectifier with controlled elements
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/12 using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/487 Neutral point clamped inverters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/493 the static converters being arranged for operation in parallel

Abstract

An uninterruptible power supply device (U1) includes a converter (40), an inverter (41), a bidirectional chopper (24), and a controller (53). The bidirectional chopper (24) includes first to fourth transistors (Q11-Q14), first to fourth diodes (D11-D14), and first and second, coils (51, 52). In a charging mode, the controller (53) causes the first and fourth transistors (Q11, Q14) to be complementarily turned on and controls the ON period of each of the first and fourth transistors (Q11, Q14) so as to cause respective detected values of first current and second current (11, 12) flowing through the first coil and the second coil (51, 52) to be equal to each other.

Claims

1. An uninterruptible power supply device comprising:

a converter configured to convert an AC voltage supplied from an AC power supply into a first DC voltage, a second DC voltage, and a third DC voltage and output the first, second, and third DC voltages to a first DC bus, a second DC bus, and a third DC bas, respectively;

an inverter configured to convert the first, second, and third DC voltages supplied through the first, second, and third DC buses into an AC voltage and supply the AC voltage to a load;

a bidirectional chopper connected between the first, second, and third DC buses and a power storage device,

the first DC voltage being higher than the second DC voltage, and the third DC voltage being an intermediate voltage between the first DC voltage and the second DC voltage,

the bidirectional chopper including

a first transistor and a second transistor connected in series between the first DC bus and the third DC bus,

a third transistor and a fourth transistor connected in series between the third DC bus and the second DC bus,

a first diode, a second diode, a third diode, and a fourth diode connected in anti-parallel with the first transistor, the second transistor, the third transistor, and the fourth transistor, respectively, and

a normal mode reactor including a first coil connected between a first node and a positive electrode of the power storage device, and a second coil connected between a negative electrode of the power storage device and a second node, the first node being located between the first transistor and the second transistor, the second node being located between the third transistor and the fourth transistor; and

a controller configured to perform

a charging mode during a normal condition in which the AC power supply supplies an AC voltage, the controller in the charging mode causing the first transistor and the fourth transistor to be complementarily turned on to charge the power storage device, and

a discharging node during an outage in which the AC power supply stops supply of AC power, the controller in the discharging mode causing the second transistor and the third transistor to be complementarily turned on to discharge the power storage device,

the controller in the charging mode controlling an ON period of at least one of the first transistor and the fourth transistor to cause a value of current flowing through the first coil to be equal to a value of current flowing through the second coil.

2. The uninterruptible power supply device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first current detector configured to detect current flowing from the first node to the positive electrode of the power storage device through the first coil; and

a second current detector configured to detect current flowing from the negative electrode of the power storage device to the second node through the second coil, wherein

the controller in the charging mode controls the ON period of at least one of the first transistor and the fourth transistor to cause a value detected by the first current detector to be equal to a value detected by the second current detector.

3. The uninterruptible power supply device according to claim 2, wherein

the controller is configured to:

calculate an average value of the value detected by the first current detector and the value detected by the second current detector;

control the ON period of the first transistor to cause the average value to be equal to the value detected by the first current detector; and

control the ON period of the fourth transistor to cause the average value to be equal to the value detected by the second current detector.

4. The uninterruptible power supply device according to claim 2, wherein

the controller is configured to compare the value detected by the first current detector with the value detected by the second current detector,

when the value detected by the first current detector is smaller than the value detected by the second current detector, the controller is configured to increase the ON period of the first transistor and decrease the ON period of the fourth transistor, and

when the value detected by the first current detector is larger than the value detected by the second current detector, the controller is configured to decrease the ON period of the first transistor and increase the ON period of the fourth transistor.

5. An uninterruptible power supply system comprising a plurality of uninterruptible power supply devices each as recited in claim 1,

the plurality of uninterruptible power supply devices being connected in parallel with one another to a load and sharing the power storage device.

6. The uninterruptible power supply system according to claim 5, wherein

the controller controls the ON period of at least one of the first transistor and the fourth transistor to cause the value of current flowing through the first coil to be equal to the value of current flowing through the second coil and suppress cross current flowing through the plurality of uninterruptible power supply devices.