Power electronics equipment for transmitting signals to switching devices through air-cored insulating transformer
View Patent ↗Power electronics equipment includes a switching device directing current flow to a load and interrupting the current flowing to the load, a control circuit generating a control signal directing the conduction and non-conduction of the switching device, a driver circuit driving a control terminal of the switching device based on the control signal, and at least one air-cored insulating transformer insulating the control circuit and the driver circuit from each other. Each air-cored insulating transformer includes a primary winding and a secondary winding configured to generate a voltage by a change of interlinkage of a magnetic field. The secondary winding includes a plurality of coils configured such that voltages generated by external magnetic flux intersecting the secondary winding are canceled and a voltage generated by the signal magnetic flux intersecting the secondary winding is increased.
1. A power electronics equipment comprising:
a switching device for making a current flow to a load or interrupting the current flowing to the load, said switching device having control terminals;
a control circuit generating a control signal directing conduction and non-conduction of the switching device;
a driver circuit for driving the control terminals of the switching device based on the control signal; and
at least one air-cored insulating transformer insulating the control circuit from the driver circuit, each transformer comprising a primary winding generating a magnetic field and a secondary winding on a receiver side generating a voltage by a change of interlinkage of the magnetic field;
wherein when the control circuit transmits the control signal to the switching device, the current flows through the primary winding of the transformer to create a signal magnetic flux,
the secondary winding comprises a first secondary coil and a second secondary coil arranged adjacent to each other configured such that voltages generated by external magnetic flux intersecting the secondary winding are canceled and a voltage generated by the signal magnetic flux intersecting the secondary winding is increased,
a winding direction of the first secondary coil is the same as a winding direction of the second secondary coil,
the primary winding and the first secondary coil are arranged in a coaxial relationship, and
the first secondary coil and the second secondary coil each comprises a head and a tail in which the head of the first secondary coil is connected to the head of the second secondary coil or the tail of the first secondary coil is connected to the tail of the second secondary coil.
2. The power electronics equipment according to claim 1 , wherein a number of turns of the first secondary coil is substantially equal to a number of turns of the second secondary coil.
3. The power electronics equipment according to claim 1 , wherein the air-cored insulating transformer is a micro-machined air-cored insulating transformer.
4. A power electronics equipment comprising:
a switching device configured to direct a current flowing to a load and to interrupt the current flowing to the load, said switching device having a control terminal;
a control circuit configured to generate a control signal directing conduction and non- conduction of the switching devices;
a driver circuit for driving the control terminal of the switching device based on the control signal; and
at least one air-cored insulating transformer insulating the control circuit from the driver circuit, said insulating transformer comprising a primary winding on a transmitter side and a secondary winding on a receiver side;
wherein when the control circuit transmits the control signal to the switching device, the current flows through the primary winding of the transformer to create a signal magnetic flux, the primary winding comprises a first primary coil and a second primary coil arranged adjacent to each other configured such that a voltage generated by the signal magnetic flux intersecting the secondary winding is increased; and
wherein the secondary winding comprises a first secondary coil and a second secondary coil arranged adjacently to each other configured such that the voltages caused by external magnetic flux intersecting the secondary winding are canceled and a voltage generated by the signal magnetic flux intersecting the secondary winding is increased,
the first primary coil and the first secondary coil are arranged in a coaxial relationship,
the second primary coil and the second secondary coil are arranged in a coaxial relationship,
a winding direction of the first primary coil is the same as a winding direction of the second primary coil,
the first primary coil and the second primary coil each comprises a head and a tail in which the head of the first primary coil is connected to the head of the second primary coil, or the tail of the first primary coil is connected to the tail of the second primary coil,
a winding direction of the first secondary coil is the same as a winding direction of the second secondary coil, and
the first secondary coil and the second secondary coil each comprises a head and a tail in which the head of the first secondary coil is connected to the head of the second secondary coil, or the tail of the first secondary coil is connected to the tail of the second secondary coil.