Power supply system including a battery, a DC/DC converter, and an inverter

• US 9,214,815 B2
• Filed: 07/06/2012
• Issued: 12/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Denki Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Denki Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Okui, Yoshiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Thienvu
• Assistant Examiner(s): Squires, Brett
• Application Number:
  US13/543,214
• Publication Number:
  US 20130009482A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,257 Days
• Field of Search: 307/66
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/24 Arrangements for preventing or reducing oscillations of power in networks by control effected upon a single generator H02P9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/32 using batteries with converting means

Abstract

A power supply system includes an inverter controller which amplifies a deviation between a bus voltage command signal and a bus voltage signal obtained by detecting a bus voltage, inputs the amplified deviation to a first limit unit for limiting output power of a commercial power supply, divides the deviation into a first deviation within a first limit value of the first limit unit and a second deviation which exceeds a range of the first limit value, and controls an inverter on the basis of the first deviation, and a DC/DC converter controller which controls a DC/DC converter on the basis of the second deviation.

Claims

1. A power supply system comprising:

a commercial power supply;

a load which generates power and consumes power;

a battery which can be charged/discharged;

a DC/DC converter which boosts an output voltage of said battery to generate a bus voltage on a bus between said DC/DC converter and an inverter, and charges/discharges said battery by using power supplied to said bus;

the inverter rectifies AC power and supplies the power as DC power to said bus when charging said battery by providing to said bus the AC power obtained by subtracting power of said load from power of said commercial power supply limited in output, and converts said DC power of said bus voltage to AC power and supplies the power to said load when discharging said battery;

an inverter controller which amplifies a deviation between a bus voltage command signal defining a command value of said bus voltage and a bus voltage signal obtained by detecting said bus voltage, inputs the amplified deviation to a first limit unit for limiting output power of said commercial power supply, divides the amplified deviation into a first deviation within a first limit value of the first limit unit and a second deviation exceeding a range of the first limit value, and controls said inverter based on said first deviation; and

a DC/DC converter controller which controls said DC/DC converter based on said second deviation.

2. The power supply system as claimed in claim 1 wherein

said inverter controller

generates a first current command signal having the same phase as that of an AC voltage signal based on said first deviation, wherein said AC voltage signal is obtained by detecting an AC voltage which is output by said commercial power supply,

generates, as a second current command signal, a deviation between said first current command signal and an output current signal obtained by subtracting a current signal flowing out of a power generating apparatus from a current signal flowing to said load,

generates a third current command signal by subtracting an inverter current signal obtained by detecting a current flowing to said inverter from said second current command signal, and

controls said inverter based on said third current command signal and an AC voltage signal obtained by detecting said AC voltage to cause said bus voltage to follow said bus voltage command value and cause the inverter current to follow a value of said second current command, and

said DC/DC converter controller controls said DC/DC converter based on said second deviation to cause said bus voltage to follow said bus voltage command value.

3. The power supply system as claimed in claim 2 further comprising:

a charging/discharging limit controller which causes said DC/DC converter controller and said inverter controller to control said DC/DC converter and said inverter, respectively, so as to bring said output voltage of said battery into a determinate range by adding said second deviation to a charging/discharging limit control signal obtained by amplifying the deviation between an output voltage command signal concerning a predetermined output voltage of said battery and a detected output voltage signal obtained by detecting said output voltage of said battery and also by subtracting said charging/discharging limit control signal from said first deviation.

4. The power supply system as claimed in claim 3 wherein

said DC/DC converter controller inputs said second deviation to a second limit unit which limits a maximum charging/discharging power of said battery, divides said second deviation into a third deviation within a limit value of said second limit unit and a fourth deviation which exceeds a range of the limit value of said second limit unit, and outputs said fourth deviation to said inverter controller;

and

said inverter controller adds said fourth deviation to said first deviation.

5. The power supply system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said DC/DC converter controller and said inverter controller control said DC/DC converter and said inverter respectively by using PWM.