Mechanical power outputting apparatus and inverter apparatus

• US 6,518,736 B2
• Filed: 06/18/2001
• Issued: 02/11/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho (Toyota Motor Corporation), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho (Toyota Motor Corporation), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Ohtani, Hiroki, Sasaki, Shoichi, Komatsu, Masayuki, Moriya, Kazunari, Shamoto, Sumikazu, Inaguma, Yukio
• Primary Examiner(s): Ponomarenko, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US09/882,184
• Publication Number:
  US 20020070715A1
• Time in Patent Office: 603 Days
• Field of Search: 290/39, 290/40.C, 322/14, 322/16, 322/28, 322/36, 318/9, 318/87, 318/98
• US Class Current: 322/16
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 1/02 comprising more than one electric motor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/365 with the gears having orbital motion
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/46 Series type
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 15/025 using field orientation; Vector control; Direct Torque Control [DTC]
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2220/14 Synchronous machines
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/16 with provision for separate direct mechanical propulsion
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/61 by batteries charged by engine-driven generators, e.g. series hybrid electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/08 including control of electric propulsion units, e.g. motors or generators
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 27/08 with pulse width modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/08 Arrangements for controlling the speed or torque of a single motor H02P6/10, H02P6/28 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 Electric machine technologies in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 903/91 Orbital, e.g. planetary gears

Abstract

A direct-current power supply connecting the negative pole bus of an inverter circuit and the neutral point of a motor and a capacitor connecting the positive pole bus of the inverter circuit and the neutral point of the motor are provided for performing the switching control of the transistors T1-T6 of the inverter circuit on the basis of a phase voltage command value formed by the addition of a direct-current component and an alternating-current component. The voltage between the terminals of the capacitor is controlled on the direct-current component, and the driving control of the motor is performed on the alternating-current component. The supply voltage of the direct-current power supply can be made to be lower than a voltage necessary to drive the motor. Moreover, the withstand voltage of the capacitor can be made to be smaller and the relay circuit can be simplified in comparison with an apparatus equipped with a capacitor connected between the positive pole bus and the negative pole bus of an inverter circuit. As a result, the downsizing of an apparatus and the reduction in costs can be achieved, and the durability and the reliability of the apparatus can be improved.

Claims

1. A mechanical power outputting apparatus for outputting mechanical power, said apparatus comprising:

a first dynamo-electric motor driven to rotate by a polyphase alternating current;

a first inverter circuit capable of supplying polyphase alternating-current power to said first dynamo-electric motor by switching operation of a plurality of switching elements;

a first direct-current power supply connected with either bus of a positive pole bus and a negative pole bus of said first inverter circuit and a neutral point of said first dynamo-electric motor;

a second dynamo-electric motor driven by a polyphase alternating current to rotate;

a second inverter circuit having a positive pole bus and a negative pole bus connected with the positive pole bus and the negative pole bus of said first inverter circuit, respectively, said second inverter circuit supplying polyphase alternating-current power to said second dynamo-electric motor by the switching operation of the plural switching elements; and

an accumulating device connected between the positive pole bus and the negative pole bus of said first inverter circuit, said accumulating device being capable of being charged and discharged.

2. The mechanical power outputting apparatus according to claim 1, said apparatus further comprising a first drive and accumulation controlling circuit for performing driving control of said first dynamo-electric motor and for controlling an accumulated state of said accumulating device.

3. The mechanical power outputting apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said first drive and accumulation controlling circuit controls switching of the plural switching elements of said first inverter circuit so as to regulate the polyphase alternating current to be imposed on said first dynamo-electric motor and so as to regulate the charging and the discharging of said accumulating device.

4. The mechanical power outputting apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said first drive and accumulation controlling circuit controls switching of the plural switching elements of said first inverter circuit so that the polyphase alternating current enabling said first dynamo-electric motor to output target mechanical power is imposed on said first dynamo-electric motor and so that a voltage between terminals of said accumulating device is a target voltage.

5. The mechanical power outputting apparatus according to claim 1, said apparatus further comprising a second direct-current power supply connected between either bus of the positive pole bus and the negative pole bus of said second inverter circuit and the neutral point of said second dynamo-electric motor.

6. The mechanical power outputting apparatus according to claim 5, said apparatus further comprising a second drive and accumulation controlling circuit for performing driving control of said second dynamo-electric motor and for controlling an accumulated state of said accumulating device.

7. The mechanical power outputting apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said second drive and accumulation controlling circuit controls switching of the plural switching elements of said second inverter circuit so as to regulate the polyphase alternating current to be imposed on said second dynamo-electric motor and so as to regulate the charging and the discharging of said accumulating device.

8. The mechanical power outputting apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said second drive and accumulation controlling circuit controls switching of the plural switching elements of said second inverter circuit so that the polyphase alternating current enabling said second dynamo-electric motor to output target mechanical power is imposed on said second dynamo-electric motor and so that a voltage between terminals of said accumulating device is a target voltage.