Pulse-width modulation method for a frequency converter

• US 7,190,601 B2
• Filed: 08/26/2004
• Issued: 03/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Vacon Oy (Danfoss A/S)
• Original Assignee: Vacon Oyj (Danfoss A/S)
• Inventors: Saren, Hannu, Luukko, Julius
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel; Rajnikant B.
• Application Number:
  US10/925,967
• Publication Number:
  US 20050046508A1
• Time in Patent Office: 929 Days
• Field of Search: 363 34- 44, 363/95, 363 51- 57, 363/85, 363/135, 363/136, 363/98, 318/801, 318/811, 318/767, 318/700, 318530-536
• US Class Current: 363/132
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 5/4585 having a rectifier with controlled elements
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/53876 based on synthesising a desired voltage vector via the selection of appropriate fundamental voltage vectors, and corresponding dwelling times
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/22 Current control, e.g. using a current control loop
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/28 Stator flux based control
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 27/08 with pulse width modulation

Abstract

A space-vector pulse-width modulation method for a frequency converter provided with a voltage intermediate circuit, said frequency converter comprising a mains bridge (10) to be connected to an alternating current source (U_U, U_V, U_W), a direct-voltage intermediate circuit and a controlled load bridge (11) for supplying a variable-frequency alternating voltage (U_S, U_R, U_T) to a load (12), and in which method the modulator performing the modulation is given a reference. The load bridge modulator is given a reference consisting of the references for the flux linkage changes produced by the voltage vectors, the flux linkage change is calculated on the basis of measured intermediate-circuit voltage, and the currently active voltage vector is kept turned on until the reference value is reached.

Claims

1. A method for space-vector pulse-width modulating a frequency converter, said frequency converter having a mains bridge connected to an alternating current source, a direct-voltage intermediate circuit and a controlled load bridge supplying a variable-frequency alternating voltage to a load, said method comprising the steps of;

producing references for flux linkage changes produced by the voltage vectors;

giving said references to the modulator of the load bridge;

calculating the flux linkage change on the basis of measured intermediate-circuit voltage; and

maintaining the currently active voltage vector until a reference value is reached.

2. A method for space-vector pulse-width modulating a frequency converter, said frequency converter having a mains bridge connected to an alternating current source, a direct-voltage intermediate circuit and a controlled load bridge supplying a variable-frequency alternating voltage to a load, said method comprising the steps of:

producing references for flux linkage changes produced by the voltage vectors;

giving said references to the modulator of the load bridge;

calculating the flux linkage change on the basis of measured intermediate-circuit voltage;

maintaining the currently active voltage vector until a reference value is reached;

wherein a first voltage vector is turned on and maintained in the turned-on state until the flux linkage change equals one half of the reference for a first sector, whereupon a second voltage vector is turned on and maintained in a turned on state until the flux linkage change produced thereby equals one half of the reference for a second sector, whereupon a zero voltage vector is turned on until a time corresponding to half the duration of the switching period has elapsed from the beginning of the switching period, whereupon the second voltage vector is turned on until the remaining half of the reference of the second sector for flux linkage change has been fulfilled, whereupon the first voltage vector is again turned on and applied until the remaining half of the reference for the first sector for flux linkage change has been fulfilled, whereupon if any time of the switching period still remains, the zero voltage vector is turned on until the end of the switching period.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the mains bridge is a controlled bridge, and wherein the mains bridge is controlled using a corresponding differential space-vector pulse-width modulation method, the mains bridge modulator being given a reference value consisting of imaginary references for the flux linkage change of an inductor connected between the alternating current source and the mains bridge.

4. A frequency converter, comprising:

a mains bridge connected to an alternating current source;

a direct-voltage intermediate circuit;

a controlled load bridge for supplying a variable-frequency alternating voltage to a load;

a control unit having a modulator, said load bridge being controlled by space-vector

pulse-width modulation by said modulator;

wherein the reference for the mains bridge modulator in the control unit includes references for the flux linkage changes produced by the voltage vectors, the modulator calculating the flux linkage change on the basis of measured intermediate-circuit voltage and maintaining the currently active voltage vector in a turned on state until the reference value is reached.

5. A frequency converter, comprising:

a mains bridge connected to an alternating current source;

a direct-voltage intermediate circuit;

a controlled load bridge for supplying a variable-frequency alternating voltage to a load;

a control unit having a modulator, said load bridge being controlled by space-vector

pulse-width modulation by said modulator;

wherein the reference for the mains bridge modulator in the control unit includes references for the flux linkage changes produced by the voltage vectors, the modulator calculating the flux linkage change on the basis of measured intermediate-circuit voltage and maintaining the currently active voltage vector in a turned on state until the reference value is reached;

wherein the modulator turns on a first voltage vector, which is maintained in a turned-on state until the flux linkage change equals half of the reference for a first sector, whereupon the modulator changes to a second voltage vector, which is maintained in a turned-on state until the flux linkage change produced thereby equals half of the reference for the second sector, whereupon the modulator turns on a zero voltage vector until a time corresponding to half the duration of the switching period has elapsed from the beginning of the switching period, whereupon the modulator turns on the second voltage vector until the remaining half of reference for the first sector for the flux linkage change has been fulfilled, whereupon the modulator again turns on the first voltage vector;

which is applied until the remaining half of reference for the first sector for flux linkage change has been fulfilled, whereupon if any time of the switching period still remains, the modulator turns on the zero voltage vector until the end of the switching period.

6. The frequency converter according to claim 5, wherein the mains bridge is a controlled bridge;

and

wherein the modulator of the mains bridge controls the mains bridge by a corresponding differential space-vector pulse-width modulation method, wherein the reference value for the mains bridge modulator consists of imaginary references for the flux linkage change of an inductor connected between the alternating current source and the mains bridge.