# US 11,114,992 B2 · Motor drive with a filter including a three-phase differential mode reactor with common mode damping

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- Number: US 11,114,992 B2
- Document ID: US11114992B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/719,432
- Filed: 2019-12-18
- Published: 2020-06-25
- Granted: 2021-09-07
- Earliest claimed: 2018-12-21
- Assignees: Schaffner EMV AG
- Applicants: Schaffner EMV AG
- Inventors: Andrew Cecil Tucker; Luca Dalessandro; Jari Tapani Heininen
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11114992B2

## CPC

- H02M 1/126: {using passive filters}
- H03H 7/01: Frequency selective two-port networks
- H01F 27/24: Magnetic cores
- H01F 27/28: Coils; Windings; Conductive connections
- H01F 27/306: {Fastening or mounting coils or windings on core, casing or other support}
- H01F 27/33: Arrangements for noise damping
- H01F 37/00: Fixed inductances not covered by group H01F17/00
- H02M 1/44: Circuits or arrangements for compensating for electromagnetic interference in converters or inverters
- H02P 27/04: using variable-frequency supply voltage, e.g. inverter or converter supply voltage
- H02M 1/0064: {Magnetic structures combining different functions, e.g. storage, filtering or transformation}
- H02M 1/123: {Suppression of common mode 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)
- H03H: IMPEDANCE NETWORKS, e.g. RESONANT CIRCUITS; RESONATORS (waveguides, resonators, lines or other devices of the waveguide type H01P)
- H01F: MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
- H02P: CONTROL OR REGULATION OF ELECTRIC MOTORS, ELECTRIC GENERATORS OR DYNAMO-ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; CONTROLLING TRANSFORMERS, REACTORS OR CHOKE COILS

## Abstract

Motor drive with a T-type filter with at least two three-phase differential mode reactors and three capacitors, wherein at least one of the three-phase differential mode reactor comprises an auxiliary coil (6) wound around three wound core elements (2.1, 2.2, 2.3) such that the common mode current is induced in the auxiliary coil (6).

## Claims

### Claim 1

Three-phase differential mode filter for a motor drive system having a first phase, a second phase, and a third phase, comprising for each one of the three phases a supply side input, a motor side input, a conductor between the supply side input and the motor side input for conducting a current of the motor drive between a supply and a motor, a connection point in the conductor, wherein the three-phase differential mode filter comprises three capacitors connected in a star point and/or delta connection with the connection points of the conductors of the first phase, second phase and third phase, wherein the three-phase differential mode filter comprises at least two of a first three-phase differential mode reactor between the supply side input and the connection point, a second three-phase differential mode reactor between the motor side input and the connection point, and a third three-phase differential mode reactor connected via a star point and/or delta connection with the connection points, wherein one of the at least two three-phase differential mode reactors is a common mode compensating three-phase differential mode reactor with:
a first core element;
a second core element;
a third core element;
a first coil wound around the first core element for conducting the current of a first phase and for damping a differential mode noise currents in the first phase;
a second coil wound around the second core element for conducting the current of a second phase and for damping a differential mode noise currents in the second phase;
a third coil wound around the third core element for conducting the current of a third phase and for damping a differential mode noise currents in the third phase; and
wherein the common mode compensating three-phase differential mode reactor comprises an auxiliary coil wound such around the first core element, the second core element and the third core element that a common mode current in the first phase, the second phase and the third phase is induced in the auxiliary coil.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

Filter according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary coil is wound such around the first core element, the second core element and the third core element that the differential mode components of the first phase, the second phase and the third phase cancel each other out in the auxiliary coil.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

Filter according to claim 1, wherein the common mode current through the first coil creates a first common mode magnetic flux in the first core element, wherein the common mode current through the second coil creates a second common mode magnetic flux in the second core element, wherein the common mode current through the third coil creates a third common mode magnetic flux in the third core element, wherein the auxiliary coil is wound such around the first core element, the second core element and the third core element that the first, second and third common mode magnetic flux sum up in the auxiliary coil.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

Filter according to claim 1, wherein a first end of the auxiliary coil is connected directly or via an impedance with a second end of the auxiliary coil.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

Filter according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary coil comprises a girdle coil wound such around the first core element, the second core element and the third core element that it encloses the first core element, the second core element and the third core element in a same loop or coil.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

Filter according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary coil comprises a first sub auxiliary coil wound around the first core element, a second sub auxiliary coil wound around the second core element and a third sub auxiliary coil wound around the third core element, wherein a first end of the auxiliary coil corresponds to a first end of the first sub auxiliary coil, wherein a second end of the first sub auxiliary coil is connected to a first end of the second sub auxiliary coil, wherein a second end of the second sub auxiliary coil is connected to a first end of the third sub auxiliary coil, wherein a second end of the auxiliary coil corresponds to a second end of the third sub auxiliary coil.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

Filter according to claim 1, wherein the first core element is a first wound leg of a three-phase core, the second core element is a second wound leg of the three-phase core and the third core element is a third wound leg of three-phase core, wherein the three-phase core comprises at least one yoke connecting the first, second and third wound leg.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

Filter according to claim 1, wherein the first core element, the second core element and the third core element are three separate cores.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

Filter according to claim 8, wherein each of three separate cores has a ring form.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

Filter according to claim 1, wherein the common mode compensating three-phase differential mode reactor has a first inductance, wherein the filter has other differential mode reactors that have other inductances, the first inductance being larger than the other inductances.

### Claim 11 (depends on 1)

Filter according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary coil is wound such around the first core element, the second core element and the third core element that the common mode current in the first phase, the second phase and the third phase is damped by the auxiliary coil (6; 6.1, 6.2, 6.3) in the frequency range above one Kilohertz.

### Claim 12 (depends on 1)

Motor control comprising a filter according to claim 1 and an AC-AC converter for converting the supply current into the motor current.

### Claim 13 (depends on 12)

Motor control according to claim 12, wherein the filter is arranged between a supply side and the AC-AC converter.

### Claim 14

Three-phase differential mode reactor with a first phase, a second phase, and a third phase, the reactor comprising:
a first core element;
a second core element;
a third core element;
a first coil wound around the first core element for conducting a current of the first phase and for damping a differential mode noise currents in the first phase;
a second coil wound around the second core element for conducting a current of the second phase and for damping a differential mode noise currents in the second phase;
a third coil wound around the third core element for conducting the current of the third phase and for damping a differential mode noise currents in the third phase;
an auxiliary coil wound such around the first core element, the second core element and the third core element that a common mode current in the first phase, the second phase and the third phase is induced in the auxiliary coil.

### Claim 15 (depends on 14)

Reactor according to claim 14, either
wherein the auxiliary coil comprises a girdle coil wound such around the first core element, the second core element and the third core element that it encloses the first core element, the second core element and the third core element in a same loop or coil; or
wherein the auxiliary coil comprises a first sub auxiliary coil wound around the first core element, a second sub auxiliary coil wound around the second core element and a third sub auxiliary coil wound around the third core element, wherein a first end of the auxiliary coil corresponds to a first end of the first sub auxiliary coil, wherein a second end of the first sub auxiliary coil is connected to a first end of the second sub auxiliary coil, wherein a second end of the second sub auxiliary coil is connected to a first end of the third sub auxiliary coil, wherein a second end of the auxiliary coil corresponds to a second end of the third sub auxiliary coil.