Multiplex connection inverter apparatus

• US 6,813,167 B2
• Filed: 06/05/2002
• Issued: 11/02/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Masashi, Shimizu, Motohiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Sherry, Michael
• Assistant Examiner(s): Laxton, Gary L.
• Application Number:
  US10/161,594
• Publication Number:
  US 20030025398A1
• Time in Patent Office: 881 Days
• Field of Search: 363/39-43, 363/65, 363/71
• US Class Current: 363/40
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0077 Plural converter units whose outputs are connected in series
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/49 Combination of the output voltage waveforms of a plurality of converters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/493 the static converters being arranged for operation in parallel

Abstract

A multiplex connection inverter apparatus is provided having two separate inverters connected to each other for declining current ripples which may be generated when the superposing of the alternating current outputs with their carrier signal components held in phase with each other. The alternating current outputs of the two inverters are set opposite in the phase while their carrier signal components are in phase with each other. For connecting in parallel, the positive port of one of the two inverters is connected to the negative port of the other inverter to constitute one of two output terminals while the negative port of the one inverter is connected to the positive port of the other inverter to constitute the other output terminal. For connecting in series, the negative ports of the two inverters are connected to each other while the positive ports of the same are assigned as two output ports.

Claims

1. A multiplex connection inverter apparatus comprising:

a first inverter generating a first alternating current output that includes a first carrier signal component,

a second inverter generating a second alternating current output that includes a second carrier signal component, said first and said second alternating current outputs being synchronized together to be opposite in phase while the first and second carrier signal components are in phase, and

a means for generating a third alternating current output, said means having one of two output terminals thereof arranged for connecting between a positive port of one of the two inverters and a negative port of the other inverter and the other output terminal thereof arranged for connecting between the negative port of the one inverter and the positive port of the other inverter,

wherein, to generate the third alternating current output, said means superposes the first and second alternating current outputs such that the superposed first and second carrier signal components are opposite in phase.

2. A multiplex connection inverter apparatus comprising:

a first inverter generating a first alternating current output that includes a first carrier signal component,

a second inverter generating a second alternating current output that includes a second carrier signal component, said first and said second alternating current outputs being synchronized together to be opposite in phase while the first and second carrier signal components are in phase, and

a means for generating a third alternating current output, said means being provided for connecting together the negative ports of the first and second inverters and for assigning the positive ports of the first and second inverters to be the output terminals,

wherein, to generate the third alternating current output, said means superposes the first and second alternating current outputs such that the superposed first and second carrier signal components are opposite in phase.