Provision of a low-inductive rail for three-point phase module

• US 6,456,516 B1
• Filed: 03/20/2001
• Issued: 09/24/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Greif, Tomas, Pfauser, Anton, Bruckmann, Manfred
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, MATTHEW VAN
• Application Number:
  US09/744,425
• Time in Patent Office: 553 Days
• Field of Search: 363/140, 363/144, 257/700, 257/701, 257/723, 257/724, 257/725, 361/624, 361/637, 361/648
• US Class Current: 363/144
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/003 Constructional details, e.g. physical layout, assembly, wiring or busbar connections
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/487 Neutral point clamped inverters
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/1432 specially adapted for power drive units or power converters
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/14325 for cabinets or racks

Abstract

A low-inductive busbar arrangement for a three-point phase module of a polyphase three-point power converter is provided. At least one turn-off semiconductor switched being provided for each switch of this three-point phase module and at least one diode being provided for each of the two neutral point diodes. Connection busbars of this three-point-phase module are distributed between three busbar planes of the low-inductive busbar arrangement, which are mutually electrically insulated from one another in each case with insulation layer and are arranged in a plan-parallel manner. A low-inductive busbar arrangement for a three-point phase module is thus obtained which has three busbar planes, irrespective of the series connection number.

Claims

1. A low-inductive busbar arrangement having three planes, comprising:

a three-point phase module of a polyphase three-point power converter having switches and at least two neutral point diodes, and further including;

at least one turn-off semiconductor switch for each switch of the three-point phase module,

at least one diode being provided for each of the neutral point diodes, and

terminal, branch and connection busbars distributed between the planes,

wherein the planes are mutually electrically insulated from one another via insulation layers, and

wherein the planes are arranged parallel to one another.

2. The low-inductive busbar arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the terminal busbars include a neutral point terminal busbar arranged in one of the planes and designed to cover the busbars in the other planes.

3. The low-inductive busbar arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the terminal busbars include a neutral point terminal busbar and intermediate circuit terminal busbars, the neutral point terminal busbar being arranged in one plane of the planes, the intermediate circuit terminal busbars including terminal lugs, the neutral point terminal busbar covering the terminal lugs.

4. The low-inductive busbar arrangement according to claim 1, wherein at least one member of each of the three planes are adhesively bonded to one another.

5. The low-inductive busbar arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the connection busbars are substantially identical.

6. The low-inductive busbar arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the three point phase module includes upper and lower bridge halves, and wherein the connection busbars of the upper bridge half and of the lower bridge half are spatially arranged in a row adjacent to one another.

7. The low-inductive busbar arrangement according to claim 1, wherein two of the planes have a plurality of the busbars distributed thereon.

8. The low-inductive busbar arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the terminal busbars include at least one load terminal busbar, a positive intermediate circuit terminal busbar and a negative intermediate circuit terminal busbar which are arranged in one of the at least three planes.

9. The low-inductive busbar arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the connection busbars are provided in two components of the three-point phase module, the components being electrically connected in series to one another and being arranged in one of the planes.

10. The low-inductive busbar arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the terminal busbars include a neutral point terminal busbar which extends along one of the at the planes.

11. The low-inductive busbar arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the branch busbars and terminal busbars are arranged together in at least one of the planes.

12. The low-inductive busbar arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the terminal busbars include intermediate circuit terminal busbars which are adjacently arranged in one of the planes.

13. The low-inductive busbar arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the terminal busbars include a load terminal busbar and intermediate circuit terminal busbars, and wherein at least two branch busbars are arranged spatially adjacent to one another and provided between the intermediate circuit terminal busbars and the load terminal busbar.

14. The low-inductive busbar arrangement according to claim 1, wherein each busbar of the busbars which is arranged in at least one of the planes has holes corresponding to components of the three-point phase module.

15. The low-inductive busbar arrangement according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the terminal, branch and connection busbars are associated with an element which is provided in a group consisting of the switch and the neutral point diodes.

16. A low-inductive busbar arrangement for a polyphase three-point power converter, comprising:

a three-point phase module comprising;

a positive shunt busbar;

a negative shunt busbar; and

an inductive busbar arrangement including a positive intermediate circuit terminal busbar and a negative intermediate circuit terminal busbar which are electrically conductively connected to one another via the positive and negative shunt busbars.