Power output device

• US 6,548,984 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2001
• Issued: 04/15/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyoda Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Sato, Eiji, Ohtani, Hiroki, Sasaki, Shoichi, Komatsu, Masayuki, Moriya, Kazunari, Shamoto, Sumikazu, Inaguma, Yukio
• Primary Examiner(s): Donels, Jeffrey
• Application Number:
  US09/887,016
• Publication Number:
  US 20020000784A1
• Time in Patent Office: 659 Days
• Field of Search: 318/624, 318/767-768, 318/729, 318/771, 318/798, 318/801, 318/813
• US Class Current: 318/801
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/4803 with means for reducing DC component from AC output voltage
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/53873 with digital control
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 23/0077 Characterised by the use of a particular software algorithm
• 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: H02P 6/10 Arrangements for controlling torque ripple, e.g. providing reduced torque ripple

Abstract

When the absolute values of the negative voltage V− and the positive voltage V+ of a rectangular wave to be applied to the three phase coils of the motor driven using a rectangular-waved voltage are different, time T1 and time T2 for the rectangular wave are adjusted such that the area A representing the absolute value of a time integration value of the negative voltage V− and the area B representing the absolute value of a time integration value of the positive voltage V+ becomes equal to each other. With this adjustment, the average voltage of the rectangular wave becomes of value 0, so that a DC component current is prevented from flowing into the three phase coils of the motor.

Claims

1. A power output device, comprising:

a motor designed to be driven to rotate using multiple phase AC power;

an inverter circuit supplying multiple phase AC power to the motor while switching a plurality of switching elements;

a first power source connected to a positive bus bar and a negative bus bar of the inverter circuit;

a second power source connected to the positive bus bar or the negative bus bar of the inverter circuit and to a neutral point of the motor; and

a controller for controlling switching of the plurality of switching elements of the inverter circuit such that a ratio between positive and negative voltages relative to a potential at the neutral point of the motor, concerning respective phases of the multiple phase AC power to be supplied to the motor, become a predetermined ratio based on a voltage of the first power source and a voltage of the second power source.

2. A power output device according to claim 1, wherein the first power source is chargeable using power from the second power source.

3. A power output device according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls switching of the plurality of switching elements of the inverter circuit, concerning the respective phases of the multiple phase AC power, using ratios, as the predetermined ratios, which would make a difference between a time integration value of a voltage of a positive pulse and an absolute value of a time integration value of a voltage of a negative value become a predetermined value.

4. A power output device according to claim 3, wherein the controller performs control with the predetermined value being zero.

5. A power output device according to claim 3, wherein the controller controls switching of the plurality of switching elements of the inverter circuit, with the predetermined value being any value other than zero, so that a current in a predetermined direction flows into a neutral point of the motor.

6. A power output device according to claim 3, wherein the controller adjusts a ratio between the positive pulse and the negative pulse concerning each of the respective phases of the multiple phase AC power such that the difference becomes the predetermined value.

7. A power output device according to claim 3, wherein the controller adjusts an effective voltage of either the positive pulse or the negative pulse concerning each of the respective phases of the multiple phase AC power such that the difference becomes the predetermined value.

8. A power output device according to claim 7, wherein the controller adjusts the effective voltage of a pulse through pulse width modulation.

9. A power output device according to claim 1, wherein

the motor is a generator motor capable of generation in response to power input thereto,

at least one of the first power source or the second power source is a rechargeable and dischargeable power source, and

the power output device comprises a charge controller for driving the motor so as to operate as a power generator, and controlling switching of the plurality of switching elements of the inverter circuit so that the at least one of the first power source or the second power source are charged using power generated by the motor.

10. A power output device, comprising:

a motor designed to be driven to rotate using multiple phase AC power;

an inverter circuit supplying multiple phase AC power to the motor while switching a plurality of switching elements;

a first power source connected to a positive bus bar of the inverter circuit and to a neutral point of the motor;

a second power source connected to the negative bus bar of the inverter circuit and to a neutral point of the motor; and

a controller for controlling switching of the plurality of switching elements of the inverter circuit such that a ratio between positive and negative voltages relative to a potential at the neutral point of the motor, concerning respective phases of the multiple phase AC power to be supplied to the motor, become a predetermined ratio based on a voltage of the first power source and a voltage of the second power source.

11. A power output device according to claim 10, wherein the first power source is chargeable using power from the second power source.

12. A power output device according to claim 10, wherein the second power source is chargeable using power from the first power source.

13. A power output device according to claim 10, further comprising a chargeable and dischargeable capacitor, connected to the positive bus bar and the negative bus bar of the inverter circuit.

14. A power output device according to claim 10, wherein the controller performs control, concerning the respective phases of the multiple phase AC power using, as the predetermined ratio, a ratio which would make a difference between a time integration value of a voltage of a positive pulse and an absolute value of a time integration value of a voltage of a negative value become a predetermined value.

15. A power output device according to claim 14, wherein the controller performs control with the predetermined value being zero.

16. A power output device according to claim 14, wherein the controller performs control, with the predetermined value being any value other than zero, so that a current in a predetermined direction flows into a neutral point of the motor.

17. A power output device according to claim 14, wherein the controller adjusts a ratio between the positive pulse and the negative pulse concerning each of the respective phases of the multiple phase AC power such that the difference becomes the predetermined value.

18. A power output device according to claim 14, wherein the controller adjusts an effective voltage of either the positive pulse or the negative pulse concerning each of the respective phase of the multiple phase AC power such that the difference becomes the predetermined value.

19. A power output device according to claim 18, wherein the controller adjusts the effective voltage of a pulse through pulse width modulation.

20. A power output device according to claim 10, wherein

the motor is a generator motor capable of power generation in response to power input thereto,

at least one of the first power source or the second power source is a rechargeable and dischargeable power source, and

the power output device comprises a charge controller for controlling switching of the plurality of switching elements of the inverter circuit so that the motor is driven to operate as a generator, and that the at least one of the first power source of the second power source are charged using power generated by the motor.