IP Library Granted Patent US 10,340,733
Granted Patent B2
US 10,340,733 · App. 14/615,814 · Granted Jul 2, 2019

3-wire transformer-free UPS system and method of control to reduce common mode current

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Patent No.
US 10,340,733
App. No.
14/615,814
Granted
Jul 2, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A common mode choke in a 3-wire transformer free UPS system with which different rectifier and bypass power sources are used is eliminated by using different types of PWM control depending on whether the inverter is paralleled with the bypass power source. When the inverter is paralleled with the bypass power source, a type of PWM control is used that does not have common mode voltage injection. When the inverter is not paralleled with the bypass power source, a type of PWM control is used that has common mode voltage injection. In an aspect, the PWM control that does not have common mode voltage injection is sine-triangle PWM and the PWM control that has common mode voltage injection is space-vector PWM.

Claims (8)

1. A method of controlling a double-conversion three-wire transformer free uninterruptible power supply system having a rectifier and a bypass switch, the rectifier coupled to a rectifier bypass source and the bypass switch coupled to a bypass power source wherein the rectifier power source and the bypass power sources are different power sources, the uninterruptible power supply system including an inverter and a control module, comprising:

controlling the inverter with the control module with a pulse width modulation control that does not have common mode injection when the inverter is paralleled with the bypass power source and with a pulse width modulation control that has common mode injection when the inverter is not paralleled with the bypass power source

wherein controlling the inverter with pulse width modulation control that does not have common mode injection comprises controlling the inverter with a sine-triangle pulse width modulation control and controlling the inverter with pulse width modulation control that has common mode injection comprises controlling the inverter with space-vector pulse width modulation control.

2. A double conversion three-wire uninterruptible power supply system, comprising:

a rectifier coupled to a rectifier power source without a common mode choke in series between the rectifier and the rectifier power source, the rectifier having an output coupled to an input of an inverter;

a bypass switch coupled to a bypass power source that is different than the rectifier power source; and

a control module that controls the rectifier, bypass switch and inverter, the control module configured to control the inverter with a pulse width modulation control that does not have common mode injection when the inverter is paralleled with the bypass power source and with a pulse width modulation control that has common mode injection when the inverter is not paralleled with bypass power source.

3. The uninterruptible power supply system of claim 2 wherein the pulse width modulation control that does not have common mode injection is sine-triangle pulse width modulation control and the pulse width modulation control that has common mode injection is space-vector pulse width modulation control.

Assignments (9)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Oct 26, 2021
From: VERTIV CORPORATION; VERTIV IT SYSTEMS, INC.; ELECTRICAL RELIABILITY SERVICES, INC.; ENERGY LABS, INC.
To: UMB BANK, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 057923/0782 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Mar 3, 2020
From: ELECTRICAL RELIABILITY SERVICES, INC.; ENERGY LABS, INC.; VERTIV CORPORATION; VERTIV IT SYSTEMS, INC.
To: CITIBANK, N.A.
Reel/Frame 052076/0874 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Mar 2, 2020
From: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
To: VERTIV CORPORATION (F/K/A ALBER CORP.); VERTIV IT SYSTEMS, INC. (F/K/A AVOCENT CORPORATION); VERTIV IT SYSTEMS, INC. (F/K/A AVOCENT FREMONT, LLC); VERTIV IT SYSTEMS, INC. (F/K/A AVOCENT HUNTSVILLE, LLC); VERTIV IT SYSTEMS, INC. (F/K/A AVOCENT REDMOND CORP.); ELECTRICAL RELIABILITY SERVICES, INC.; VERTIV CORPORATION (F/K/A EMERSON NETWORK POWER, ENERGY SYSTEMS, NORTH AMERICA, INC.); VERTIV CORPORATION (F/K/A LIEBERT CORPORATION)
Reel/Frame 052065/0666 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Mar 2, 2020
From: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY N.A.
To: VERTIV CORPORATION; VERTIV IT SYSTEMS, INC.; ELECTRICAL RELIABILITY SERVICES, INC.
Reel/Frame 052071/0913 →
SECOND LIEN SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Jun 10, 2019
From: VERTIV IT SYSTEMS, INC.; VERTIV CORPORATION; VERTIV NORTH AMERICA, INC.; ELECTRICAL RELIABILITY SERVICES, INC.; VERTIV ENERGY SYSTEMS, INC.
To: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A.
Reel/Frame 049415/0262 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 5, 2018
From: LIEBERT CORPORATION
To: VERTIV CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 047013/0116 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Dec 2, 2016
From: ALBER CORP.; ASCO POWER TECHNOLOGIES, L.P.; AVOCENT CORPORATION; AVOCENT FREMONT, LLC; AVOCENT HUNTSVILLE, LLC; AVOCENT REDMOND CORP.; ELECTRICAL RELIABILITY SERVICES, INC.; EMERSON NETWORK POWER, ENERGY SYSTEMS, NORTH AMERICA, INC.; LIEBERT CORPORATION; LIEBERT NORTH AMERICA, INC.; NORTHERN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 040797/0615 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Dec 1, 2016
From: ALBER CORP.; ASCO POWER TECHNOLOGIES, L.P.; AVOCENT CORPORATION; AVOCENT FREMONT, LLC; AVOCENT HUNTSVILLE, LLC; AVOCENT REDMOND CORP.; ELECTRICAL RELIABILITY SERVICES, INC.; EMERSON NETWORK POWER, ENERGY SYSTEMS, NORTH AMERICA, INC.; LIEBERT CORPORATION; LIEBERT NORTH AMERICA, INC.; NORTHERN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 040783/0148 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 24, 2015
From: SHIRES, EDWIN; BUSH, TERRY D; HEBER, BRIAN P; BLAIR, CHARLES F
To: LIEBERT CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 035237/0910 →
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