Control device for a three-phase machine and method for operating the control device

• US 7,436,155 B2
• Filed: 09/21/2006
• Issued: 10/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Renken, Folker
• Primary Examiner(s): Laxton; Gary L
• Application Number:
  US11/524,659
• Publication Number:
  US 20070064459A1
• Time in Patent Office: 754 Days
• Field of Search: 363/39, 363/40, 363/95, 363/97, 363/98, 363/131, 363/132, 323/205, 323/207, 323/208, 323/209
• US Class Current: 323/207
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/1835 with stepless control
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 27/06 using dc to ac converters or inverters H02P27/05 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 40/30 Reactive power compensation

Abstract

A control device for a three-phase machine contains an inverter, which can be connected on the input side to a direct voltage source and on the output side to the three-phase machine. The control device further has a reactive power converter, which on the output side is terminated by a capacitor and on the input side is disposed electrically parallel to the inverter, namely on the input side of the inverter.

Claims

1. A control device for a three-phase machine, the control device comprising:

an inverter having an input side for connecting to a direct voltage source and an output side for connecting to the three-phase machine;

a capacitor; and

a reactive power converter having an output side terminated by said capacitor and an input side connected electrically parallel to said input side of said inverter.

2. The control device according to claim 1, further comprising at least one sensor outputting a measuring signal which contributes towards determining an alternating component of an input-side current of said inverter without a presence of said reactive power converter.

3. The control device according to claim 2, wherein said sensor is a phase current sensor for detecting a phase current in a phase of the three-phase machine.

4. The control device according to claim 2, wherein said sensor is a direct voltage source sensor for detecting a current of the direct voltage source.

5. The control device according to claim 1, wherein said reactive power converter is a step-up converter.

6. The control device according to claim 5, wherein said step-up converter is a polyphase step-up converter.

7. The control device according to claim 1, wherein said reactive power converter is an inverting DC/DC converter.

8. The control device according to claim 7, wherein said inverting DC/DC converter is a polyphase inverting DC/DC converter.

9. The control device according to claim 1, wherein said capacitor is a film capacitor.

10. A method for operating a control device of a three-phase machine, the control device containing an inverter having an input side for connecting to a direct voltage source and an output side for connecting to the three-phase machine, a capacitor, and a reactive power converter having an output side terminated by the capacitor and an input side connected electrically parallel to the input side of the inverter, which comprises the steps of:

determining or predetermining an alternating component of an input-side current of the inverter without a presence of the reactive power converter; and

activating the reactive power converter for compensating for the alternating component of the input-side current of the inverter.