188 results about "Active rectification" patented technology

An active rectifier and a wireless power reception apparatus using the same are disclosed herein. The active rectifier includes first and fourth switches, second and third switches, and a synchronization control unit. The first and fourth switches are turned on while the voltage of an alternating current (AC) input is negative, and apply the current of the AC input to a rectifying capacitor. The second and third switches are turned on while a voltage of the AC input is positive, and apply the current of the AC input to the rectifying capacitor. The synchronization control unit compensates for the delay time of the comparator for detecting zero-crossing of the AC input so as to switch the first to fourth switches.

A circuit for detecting air, a related system, and a related method are provided. The circuit for detecting air includes a receiver connection and an air-detection circuit. The receiver connection is configured to provide a receiver signal. The air-detection circuit is in operative communication with the receiver connection to process the receiver signal to generate a processed signal corresponding to detected air. The air-detection circuit includes one or more active-rectifying elements configured to actively rectify the receiver signal to provide the processed signal.

A power system having a phase locked loop (PLL) with a notch filter for synchronous reference frame sequence separation. The notch filter includes a generalized integrator tuned to the notch frequency. The output of the generalized integrator is summed with the filter input signal and the output of the summer is fed back to the integrator input. In one embodiment, the notch filter is programmable by a control signal generated in response to the filter output signal, thereby causing the filter to self-regulate to a frequency related to the PLL input signal. Illustrative power systems include active VAR generators and active rectifiers. One or more additional notch filters may be used to remove harmonic components from derived synchronous reference frame sequence components.

A circuit for detecting air, a related system, and a related method are provided. The circuit for detecting air includes a receiver connection and an air-detection circuit. The receiver connection is configured to provide a receiver signal. The air-detection circuit is in operative communication with the receiver connection to process the receiver signal to generate a processed signal corresponding to detected air. The air-detection circuit includes one or more active-rectifying elements configured to actively rectify the receiver signal to provide the processed signal.

The utility model relates to a voltage type source rectifier stable control system and method based on LCL filter wave, belonging to the source rectifying technical range of electronic technology. The system comprises a DC voltage control cell, a current control cell, an active damp control cell and a voltage space vector generating cell. the utility model produces six PWM signals to gain the current signal of the filter wave capacitor branch directly or indirectly, outputs the reference value of the damp voltage and achieves the stable control on the system. The method provides an adjustable sine control on the DC voltage output and input current through the active damp vector control of the voltage type source rectifier stable control system, the damp voltage reference value outputted by the active damp vector control cell, and the network voltage to execute summation operation. The utility model has the advantages of controllable DC voltage, low aberrance rate of the network input current, high power factor, satisfying the requirement of energy double-redirection flowing, and achieving the stability of the system without increasing the quantity of hardware damp resistance.

A power generation system includes at least one generator having at least two sets of stator windings, an active rectifier comprising power cell based modular converters associated with each set of generator windings. Each set of windings is connected to an AC voltage side of the associated active rectifier, with each active rectifier having a positive DC voltage output and a negative DC voltage output. The DC voltage outputs of active rectifiers are connected to each other in series. A medium voltage DC (MVDC) collection network comprises positive pole cables and negative pole cables, wherein each positive pole cable is connected to the positive DC voltage output of a first active rectifier and each negative pole cable is connected to the negative DC voltage output of a last active rectifier. A substation receives the negative and positive pole cables of the MVDC collection network for further transformation and transmission.

A rectifier for rectifying alternating current into direct current is described, in which a three-phase generator includes a three-phase stator winding. The phases of the stator winding are triggered via switching elements of a power circuit. The power circuit is controlled via a control part, which includes a controller component. The rectifier includes a control part (control module) having control terminals and a power circuit (power module) controlled by the control module and optionally provided with a cooling device, in which all the power-conducting components are designed as power MOS components and integrated in a stacked construction.

A rectifier circuit for use in an energy harvesting application in which mechanical energy is converted into electrical energy by using an AC generator using an active rectifier bridge with a pair of input terminals adapted to be connected to an output of the AC generator and a pair of output terminals, an inductor connected across the output terminals of the active rectifier bridge and a storage capacitor. A pair of output switches selectively connects the storage capacitor across the inductor. A controller controls the active rectifier bridge and the pair of output switches such that in successive switching cycles within any half wave of AC input voltage from the output of the AC generator the inductor is first loaded by current from the output of the AC generator and then discharged into the storage capacitor. An energy harvesting system which uses an AC generator for generating electrical energy out of mechanical energy, a rectifier circuit which is connected with the input to the output of the AC generator and a low power wireless system as application unit. A method of rectifying an AC output voltage of an AC generator for use in an energy harvesting application.

A system (1-2) for efficiently transferring harvested vibration energy to a battery (6) includes a piezo harvester (2) generating an AC output voltage (VP(t)) and current (IPZ(t)) and an active rectifier (3) to produce a harvested DC voltage (Vhrv) and current (Ihrv) which charge a capacitance (C0). An enable circuit (17) causes a DC-DC converter (4) to be enabled, thereby discharging the capacitance into the converter, when a comparator (A0,A1) of the rectifier which controls switches (S1-S4) thereof detects a direction reversal of the AC output current (IPZ(t)). Another comparator (13) causes the enable circuit (17) to disable the converter (4) when the DC voltage exceeds a threshold (VREF), thereby causing the capacitance be recharged.

An interleaved soft switching bridge power converter comprises switching poles operated in an interleaved manner so as to substantially reduce turn-on switching losses and diode reverse-recovery losses in the switching pole elements. Switching poles are arranged into bridge circuits that are operated so as to provide a desired voltage, current and / or power waveform to a load. By reducing switching turn on and diode reverse recovery losses, soft switching power converters of the invention may operate efficiently at higher switching frequencies. Soft switching power converters of the invention are well suited to high power and high voltage applications such as plasma processing, active rectifiers, distributed generation, motor drive inverters and class D power amplifiers.

An AC / DC power converter has an AC input and a DC output, with an input rectifier circuit coupled to the AC input. The input rectifier circuit includes a passive half-bridge rectifier circuit functional to provide passive rectification of an AC input power sign and at least one current shaper circuit. The current shaper circuit includes an input inductor coupled between the AC input and a switch node in the input active rectifier circuit. The input current shaper circuit is functional to shape an AC input current signal associated with an AC input power signal to a substantially sinusoidal current signal. A bulk capacitor circuit is coupled to the input active rectifier circuit. A DC / AC converter circuit is coupled to the bulk capacitor circuit. A resonant circuit is coupled to the DC / AC converter circuit and an output rectifier circuit may be coupled between the resonant circuit and the DC output.

The invention relates to a LCL (Lower Control Unit) filtering controlled rectifying active damping control method of electric currents on a feedback variable current side, belonging to an active rectifying method of power electronics. The method comprises the following steps: a direct current voltage control unit is used for finishing the control on a direct current voltage and producing d-shaft active currents of an electric current control unit; a q-shaft current given is used for controlling reactive components of a rectifier; a soft phase locking unit is used for locking a power grid voltage phase position and realizing the synchronous rotational transformation of the power-grid voltage and sampling currents on the variable current side; the current given and a sampling actual value are fed into the electric current control unit; the output quantity of the electric current control unit is accumulated with the electric current on the variable current side which is fed back by usinga first-order high-pass filter to generate the given quantity of a voltage space vector unit; and finally, the voltage space vector unit generates six PWM (Pulse-Width Modulation) signals to finish the control on the rectifier. The method solves the stability problem of a LCL (Low Control Unit) filtering voltage type controlled rectifier and realizes the control of the rectifier on direct-currentvoltages and currents on line side under the condition that the electric current or voltage detection of a capacitor branch is not needed.

A power system having a phase locked loop (PLL) with a notch filter for synchronous reference frame sequence separation. The notch filter includes a generalized integrator tuned to the notch frequency. The output of the generalized integrator is summed with the filter input signal and the output of the summer is fed back to the integrator input. In one embodiment, the notch filter is programmable by a control signal generated in response to the filter output signal, thereby causing the filter to self-regulate to a frequency related to the PLL input signal. Illustrative power systems include active VAR generators and active rectifiers. One or more additional notch filters may be used to remove harmonic components from derived synchronous reference frame sequence components.

A polyphase alternating current (AC) active rectifier system converts polyphase AC from an AC source to direct current (DC) on a DC bus comprising a positive DC bus line and a negative DC bus line with a switching element for each phase configured to direct current from the AC source to the DC bus through four different conducting paths with three electrical potential levels, including a positive DC level on the positive DC bus line, a negative DC level on the negative DC bus line and a neutral DC level between the positive and negative DC level on a neutral DC bus line and suppresses AC common mode electrical potential from the DC bus, comprising: a ground path between the neutral DC bus line and a system ground coupled to a neutral point for the AC source that clamps the level of the neutral DC level to the AC source neutral.

An active integrated rectifier and regulator module for providing charging current to a battery of an automobile including a stacked structure comprising two lead frames disposed above on another, the module including a voltage regulator and elements for active rectification of alternating current from a stator.

The present invention is directed to a power converter that can be used to interface a motor 4 that requires variable voltage at variable frequency to a supply network (bus) providing a nominally fixed voltage and nominally fixed frequency. The power converter includes a first active rectifier / inverter 10 electrically connected to the stator of the motor 4 and a second active rectifier / inverter 14. Both the first and second active rectifier / inverters include a plurality of semiconductor power switching devices. A dc link 12 is connected between the first active rectifier / inverter and the second active rectifier / inverter. A filter 16 is connected between the second active rectifier / inverter and the supply network and includes network terminals. The power converter includes a first controller 18 for the first active rectifier / inverter and a second controller 20 for the second active rectifier / inverter. The first controller 18 uses a dc link voltage demand signal VDC_MOT* indicative of a desired dc link voltage to control the semiconductor power switching devices of the first active rectifier / inverter 10 to achieve the desired level of dc link voltage that corresponds to the dc link voltage demand signal. The second controller 20 uses a power demand signal P* indicative of the level of power to be transferred to the dc link 12 from the supply network (bus) through the second active rectifier / inverter 14, and a voltage demand signal VBUS* indicative of the voltage to be achieved at the network terminals of the filter 16 to control the semiconductor power switching devices of the second active rectifier / inverter 14 to achieve the desired levels of power and voltage that correspond to the power and voltage demand signals. The power converter can be employed in a marine propulsion system where the rotor of the motor 4 is used to drive a propeller assembly 2.

An active rectifier (12) couples a first input voltage (Vin1) to a first electrode of a first transistor (M3) having a second electrode coupled to an output (4) conducting an output voltage (Vout), and couples a second input voltage (Vin2) to a first electrode of a second transistor (M4) having a second electrode coupled to the output conductor. A first amplifier (A1) controls a voltage (V16) of a gate of the first transistor to maintain an input offset of the first amplifier between the first input voltage and the output voltage while the first input voltage exceeds the output voltage, and a second amplifier (A2) controls a voltage (V15) on a gate of the second transistor to maintain an input offset between the second input voltage and the output voltage while the first input voltage exceeds the output voltage. The input offsets prevent backflow of current from the output to either of the first electrodes when the first or second input is nearly equal to the output voltage.

The present invention relates to the control of active rectifiers for UPS systems. Aspects of the present invention relate to a control algorithm that is implemented to realize a fast rectifier control operation that results in the improved life of a battery that is linked to the active rectifier of the UPS system. Within aspects of the present invention under unbalanced load conditions, it is possible to select (he desired behavior between the two possible extreme conditions, i.e. implement a clean power input that results in the reduced life of the battery or implement a non-clean power input resulting in the improved life of the battery. Additionally, the present invention utilizes fast rectifier control and specific feed-forward action to make it possible to obtain the very rigid control of a dc link voltage, even under extreme step load variations.

A DC power system includes a permanent magnet generator (PMG), and an active rectifier in electrical communication with the PMG. The active rectifier is adapted to actively rectify power output from the PMG if the PMG is operating at low speed, and the active rectifier is further adapted to passively rectify power output from the PMG if the PMG is operating at high speed.

A rectifier for rectifying alternating current into direct current is described, in which a three-phase generator includes a three-phase stator winding. The phases of the stator winding are triggered via switching elements of a power circuit. The power circuit is controlled via a control part, which includes a controller component. The rectifier includes a control part (control module) having control terminals and a power circuit (power module) controlled by the control module and optionally provided with a cooling device, in which all the power-conducting components are designed as power MOS components and integrated in a stacked construction.

A generator system that includes a three-phase AC machine and an active rectifier bridge employing low on-resistance MOSFET switches for converting the AC current from the machine to a DC current. The system also includes a switch control circuit to switch the MOSFET switches in synchronization with the three-phase current flow. The system determines the phase-to-ground voltages of the machine as inputs to the switch control circuit. The control circuit calculates the phase-to-phase voltages from the phase-to-ground voltages. The control circuit then determines if each of the phase-to-phase voltages is above or below first and second predetermined threshold voltages, where if the phase-to-phase voltage is above the first threshold voltage, the control circuit closes the switch, and if the phase-to-phase voltage is below the second threshold voltage, the control circuit opens the switch.

The present invention discloses a resonant converter and a control method thereof, belonging to the field of the power electronic converter technology. The resonant converter and control method thereof are composed of an input source, an original edge LLC resonance circuit, a transformer, a secondary active Boost rectification circuit and an output load. Based on the traditional LLC resonance converter, the secondary active Boost rectification circuit is substituted for the active Boost rectification circuit so as to realize the fixed frequency phase-shifting control of a converter, the frequency conversion control of the converter and the frequency conversion and fixed frequency phase-shifting combined control to facilitate the design of magnetic elements, reduce the voltage stress of the original edge switch tube and the secondary rectifier tube so as to realize the soft switch of each power semiconductor device, improve the voltage gain range, the efficiency and the power density of the converter and satisfy the requirement of a wide voltage gain margin conversion occasion.

A method is disclosed for reducing input current harmonic distortion in a Vienna-type active rectifier that includes the steps of sensing voltage values from upper and lower halves of a DC bus associated with the rectifier, determining an average of the sensed voltage values, calculating upper and lower scale factors by dividing the sensed voltage values with the averaged sensed voltage value, rescaling a reference signal from a controller using the upper and lower calculated scale factors, and forward feeding the rescaled reference signal from the controller to a pulse width modulator to obtain a gate driver signal for power semiconductor switches of the rectifier.

A dual-source multi-mode power supply system includes a battery power supply, a first DC bus, an electric power generating system and a second DC bus. The battery power supply includes a DC-DC converter circuit configured to convert a first DC voltage into a second DC voltage for supplying power to the first DC bus. The electric power generating system includes a permanent magnet generator and an active rectifier circuit configured to convert a variable-voltage / variable-frequency output into a constant high-voltage direct current (HVDC) to supply power to a second DC bus. An electronic coordinated control module determines a load request, and controls one or more switch such that the power from the first DC bus and power from the second DC bus are delivered to the loads to satisfy the load request.

A regenerative variable frequency drive includes an active converter connected to a DC bus that is connected to a first inverter that converts DC power to variable frequency, three phase AC power, and variable frequency, three phase AC power to DC power, and to a second inverter that converts DC power to three phase AC sine wave power. The converter converts single phase AC power to DC power and DC power to single phase AC power, and maintains a selected voltage on the DC bus. The converter has an active rectifier and a controller that drives the rectifier with a pulse width modulation according to a hybrid voltage switching scheme that switches the rectifier according to a unipolar voltage switching scheme through most of each cycle and switches the rectifier according to a bipolar voltage switching scheme around each zero crossing.

A direct current generating, management and distribution system includes a first armature winding, a first active rectifier having a first controller and coupled to the first armature winding, a first direct current bus coupled to the first active rectifier, a second armature winding, a second active rectifier having a second controller and coupled to the second armature winding, a second direct current bus coupled to the second active rectifier, a unit controller coupled to the first and second controllers, a first set of switches coupled to the first direct current bus and to the unit controller, a second set of switches coupled to the second direct current bus and to the unit controller, a third switch coupled to the first direct current bus and to the unit controller and a fourth switch coupled to the second direct current bus and the unit controller.

A three-phase power supply (10), intended especially to supply LEDs system (20), has a system of a diode bridge rectifier which comprises rectifying diodes (101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106). The three-phase power supply (10) is additionally equipped with FETs and each of the rectifying diodes is bypassed by an FET of a rectifying unit (111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116), respectively, which is controlled by a control system (40), comprising en anglogue-to-digital converter ADC 403, a digital-to-analogue converter (402), a microcontroller (401), which provides a control signal to a gate of the appropriate FET through the input / output (404). Once the control system (40), in particular the microcontroller (401), detects stable power supply conditions and starts operation of elements of an LED sequencer (30), it starts at the same time to control over the FETs in the active rectifier.