# US 10,312,795 B2 · Inverter device capable of suppressing overcurrent without increasing a load and operation control method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,312,795 B2 - Document ID: US10312795B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/751,462 - Filed: 2017-01-11 - Published: 2018-08-30 - Granted: 2019-06-04 - Earliest claimed: 2016-03-11 - Assignees: OMRON Corporation - Applicants: OMRON Corporation - Inventors: Takeo Nishikawa; Hironori Nakada; Satoshi Iwai; Hiroki Kawano; Yuhki Kamatani; Kuniyuki Hirai - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10312795B2 ## CPC - H02M 1/32: Means for protecting converters other than automatic disconnection - H02M 7/5387: in a bridge configuration - H02M 7/53873: {with digital control} - H02J 3/18: Arrangements for adjusting, eliminating or compensating reactive power in networks - H02M 1/0009: {Devices or circuits for detecting current in a converter} - 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)} - H02M 1/126: {using passive filters} - H02M 1/325: {with means for allowing continuous operation despite a fault, i.e. fault tolerant converters} - H02M 1/36: Means for starting or stopping converters - H02M 7/537: using semiconductor devices only, e.g. single switched pulse inverters - H02M 7/53871: {with automatic control of output voltage or current} - H02M: APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF (transformers H01F; dynamo-electric converters H02K47/00; controlling transformers, reactors or choke coils, control or regulation of electric motors, generators or dynamo-electric converters H02P) - H02J: ELECTRIC POWER NETWORKS; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY ## Abstract An inverter has a plurality of switching elements, the states of which are each switched by a pulse signal supplied in accordance with a power grid voltage. The inverter is provided with: a switching circuit that converts an input DC voltage to an AC voltage and outputs the AC voltage to a pair of output lines; a filter circuit having output coils inserted in the output lines; a current detection sensor that detects the current flowing through the output coils; and a high-speed pulse control circuit that, when an absolute value of the detected current is a threshold value or more, stops the supply of the pulse signal to the switching circuit. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An inverter device comprising: a switching unit that has a plurality of switching elements of which states are individually switched in response to a pulse signal supplied in accordance with a system voltage, converts an input DC voltage into an AC voltage, and outputs the converted AC voltage to a plurality of output lines; a filter unit that has output coils inserted into the output lines; a current detecting unit that detects a current of the output coils; a first control unit that stops supplying the pulse signal to the switching unit when an absolute value of a detection current detected by the current detecting unit is equal to or greater than a threshold value; and a second control unit that supplies the pulse signal; wherein the first control unit is configured to have a monostable multivibrator; wherein a certain time of the monostable multivibrator is longer than a sampling cycle of the second control unit. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The inverter device according to claim 1, wherein the monostable multivibrator is in an unstable state when the absolute value of the detection current becomes equal to or greater than the threshold value and returns to a stable state after the certain time, and to temporarily stop supplying the pulse signal to the switching unit while the monostable multivibrator is in an unstable state. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The inverter device according to claim 2, wherein the first control unit is configured to be an analog circuit comprising a comparator and a logic gate. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The inverter device according to claim 1, wherein the second control unit is connected to the first control unit to be able to recognize that the first control unit has stopped supplying the pulse signal to the switching unit and is connected to be able to monitor the system voltage. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The inverter device according to claim 2, further comprising: a second control unit that supplies the pulse signal, wherein the second control unit is connected to the first control unit to be able to recognize that the first control unit has stopped supplying the pulse signal to the switching unit and is connected to be able to monitor the system voltage. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The inverter device according to claim 1, wherein the second control unit determines an initial state of the pulse signal based on the system voltage when the pulse signal restarts being supplied. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The inverter device according to claim 6, wherein the initial state of the pulse signal indicates the switching element to be operated next and a pulse signal width. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The inverter device according to claim 7, wherein the second control unit gently increases and decreases the pulse signal width. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The inverter device according to claim 7, wherein when the pulse signal width is ΔT, an inductance of the output coils is L, an upper limit value for a current of the output coils is Imax, the DC voltage is Vdc, and the system voltage is Vac, ΔT is set such that the following Expression is satisfied ΔT