Two-directional current double-boost quadratic DC/DC converter

• US 9,000,740 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2011
• Issued: 04/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: IFP Energies Nouvelles, Universite de Poitiers
• Original Assignee: IFP Energies Nouvelles, Universite de Poitiers
• Inventors: Touzani, Youssef, Kefsi, Laid, Champenois, Gerard, Gaubert, Jean-Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Matthew
• Assistant Examiner(s): Torres-Rivera, Alex
• Application Number:
  US13/810,955
• Publication Number:
  US 20130119966A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,348 Days
• Field of Search: 323/220, 323/222, 323/223, 323/225, 323/259, 323/271, 323/344, 323/349
• US Class Current: 323/259
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/12 Buck converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/14 Boost converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2220/42 with use of more than one motor
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/40 using propulsion power supplied by capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/20 having different nominal voltages
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/007 Plural converter units in cascade push-pull DC/DC converters with pre-regulator H02M3/3374; DC-AC converters following a DC-DC stage including a high frequency transformer H02M7/4807; DC-AC converters following a DC-DC conversion stage generating periodically varying voltages H02M7/4826
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/158 including plural semiconductor devices as final control devices for a single load
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/1582 Buck-boost converters H02M3/1584 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 Electric machine technologies in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility

Abstract

A current reversible DC/DC double-boost quadratic converter, capable of performing high transformation ratios.

Claims

1. A current-reversible DC/DC Boost converter that will act as an interface between a first DC voltage source and a second DC voltage source, comprising:

a first branch connecting positive poles of the first and the second DC voltage sources and comprising, in series connection from the first to the second DC voltage sources, a first induction coil, a first switch controlled in opening and in closing by a first control signal, a second induction coil and a third switch controlled in opening and in closing by the first control signal, whereby the first induction coil is intercalated between the positive pole of the first voltage source and the first switch, and the second induction coil is intercalated between the first switch and the third switch;

a second branch connecting negative poles of the first and the second DC voltage sources;

a third branch, connected in parallel to the series connection of the first switch and the second induction coil, comprising a diode of which an anode is on the side of the positive pole of the first voltage source;

a fourth branch, connected between the second branch and the connection between the first induction coil and the first switch, comprising a second diode of which an anode is on the side of the second branch;

a fifth branch, connected between the second branch and the connection between the first switch and the second induction coil, comprising a first capacitor;

a sixth branch, connected between the second branch and the connection between the second induction coil and the third switch, comprising a second switch controlled in opening and in closing by a second control signal complementary to the first control signal;

a seventh branch, connected in parallel on the second DC voltage source and comprising a second capacitor;

the converter being further configured so that;

when a voltage of the first DC voltage source is lower than a voltage of the second DC voltage source, during a control period varying from 0 to T and for a cyclic ratio α

;

from time t=0 to time t=α

T, where 0<

α

<

1, the first and third switches are controlled in opening by the first control signal and the second switch is controlled in closing by the second control signal, and

from time t=α

T to time t=T, the first and third switches are controlled in closing by the first control signal and the second switch is controlled in opening by the second control signal; and

when the voltage of the first DC voltage source is higher than the voltage of the second DC voltage source, during a control period varying from 0 to T and for the cyclic ratio α

;

from time t=0 to time t=α

T, where 0<

α

<

1, the first and third switches are controlled in closinc by the first control signal and the second switch is controlled in opening by the second control signal; and

from time t=α

T to time t=T, the first and third switches are controlled in opening by the first control signal and the second switch is controlled in closing by the second control signal.

2. The converter according to claim 1, in which the cyclic ratio α

is between 0.25 and 0.75.

3. The converter according to claim 1, in which the first, second, and third switches controlled in opening and in closing are components chosen from among MOSFETs and IGBTs, with diodes installed in parallel.

4. The converter according to claim 2, in which the first, second, and third switches controlled in opening and in closing are components chosen from among MOSFETs and IGBTs, with diodes installed in parallel.

5. A method of operating a current-reversible DC/DC Boost converter acting as an interface between a first DC voltage source and a second DC voltage source, the converter comprising:

a first branch connecting the positive poles of the first and the second DC voltage sources and comprising, in series connection from the first to the second DC voltage sources, a first induction coil, a first switch controlled in opening and in closing by a first control signal, a second induction coil and a third switch controlled in opening and in closing by the first control signal, whereby the first induction coil is intercalated between the positive pole of the first voltage source and the first switch, and the second induction coil is intercalated between the first switch and the third switch;

a second branch connecting the negative poles of the first and the second DC voltage sources;

a third branch, connected in parallel to the series connection of the first switch and the second induction coil, comprising a diode of which an anode is on the side of the positive pole of the first voltage source;

a fourth branch, connected between the second branch and the connection between the first induction coil and the first switch, comprising a second diode of which an anode is on the side of the second branch;

a fifth branch, connected between the second branch and the connection between the first switch and the second induction coil, comprising a first capacitor;

a sixth branch, connected between the second branch and the connection between the second induction coil and the third switch, comprising a second switch controlled in opening and in closing by a second control signal complementary to the first control signal;

a seventh branch, connected in parallel on the second DC voltage source and comprising a second capacitor, the method comprising the steps of;

when a voltage of the first DC voltage source is lower than a voltage of the second DC voltage source, during a control period varying from 0 to T and for a cyclic ratio α

;

from time t=0 to time t=α

T, where 0<

α

<

1, controlling the first and third switches in opening by the first control signal and controlling the second switch in closing by the second control signal; and

from time t=α

T to time t=T, controlling the first and third switches in closing by the first control signal and controlling the second switch in opening by the second control signal; and

when the voltage of the first DC voltage source is higher than the voltage of the second DC voltage source, during a control period varying from 0 to T and for the cyclic ratio α

;

from time t=0 to time t=α

T, where 0<

α

<

1, controlling the first and third switches in closing by the first control signal and controlling the second switch in opening by the second control signal; and

from time t=α

T to time t=T, controlling the first and third switches in opening by the first control signal and controlling the second switch in closing by the second control signal.