IP Library Granted Patent US 8,411,472
Granted Patent B2
US 8,411,472 · App. 13/000,223 · Granted Apr 2, 2013

Power conversion device

Inventors: Eduardo Kazuhide Sato (Minato-ku, JP); Masahiro Kinoshita (Minato-ku, JP); Yushin Yamamoto (Minato-ku, JP); Tatsuaki Amboh (Minato-ku, JP); Yasuhiro Yabunishi (Akashi, JP)
Assignees: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation; Kobe Electric Industry Inc.
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Patent No.
US 8,411,472
App. No.
13/000,223
Granted
Apr 2, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

In a power conversion device, reactors in an AC input filter absorbing a voltage at a carrier frequency of a PWM converter and reactors in an AC output filter absorbing a voltage at a carrier frequency of a PWM inverter include one six-leg six-phase iron core reactor. Accordingly, the device can be reduced in size when compared with a case where the reactors are composed of two four-leg six-phase iron core reactors.

Claims (14)

1. A power conversion device, comprising:

a PWM converter converting a first three-phase AC voltage to a DC voltage;

a PWM inverter converting said DC voltage to a second three-phase AC voltage;

an AC input filter transmitting said first three-phase AC voltage and blocking a voltage at a carrier frequency generated in said PWM converter; and

an AC output filter transmitting said second three-phase AC voltage and blocking a voltage at a carrier frequency generated in said PWM inverter,

said AC input filter including

first to third reactors having one terminals receiving said first three-phase AC voltage and other terminals connected to said PWM converter, and

first to third capacitors having one electrodes connected to the one terminals of said first to third reactors, respectively, said AC output filter including

fourth to sixth reactors having one terminals receiving said second three-phase AC voltage and other terminals connected to a load circuit, and

fourth to sixth capacitors having one electrodes connected to the other terminals of said fourth to sixth reactors, respectively, other electrodes of said first to sixth capacitors being connected in common,

said first to sixth reactors being composed of a six-leg six-phase iron core reactor or a seven-leg six-phase iron core reactor.

2. The power conversion device according to claim 1 , further comprising a seventh capacitor connected between a pair of output terminals of said PWM converter and charged to said DC voltage.

3. The power conversion device according to claim 1 , further comprising seventh and eighth capacitors connected in series between a pair of output terminals of said PWM converter and charged to said DC voltage,

wherein the other electrodes of said first to sixth capacitors are connected to a node between said seventh and eighth capacitors.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Apr 26, 2024
From: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
To: TMEIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 067244/0359 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 28, 2010
From: SATO, EDUARDO KAZUHIDE; KINOSHITA, MASAHIRO; YAMAMOTO, YUSHIN; AMBOH, TATSUAKI; YABUNISHI, YASUHIRO
To: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION; KOBE ELECTRIC INDUSTRY INC.
Reel/Frame 025544/0375 →
Continuity (1)
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