Transport climate control system with a self-configuring matrix power converter
AssigneeThermo King Corporation
InventorRyan Wayne Schumacher
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Abstract
A transport climate control system is disclosed. The transport climate control system includes a self-configuring matrix power converter having a charging mode, an inverter circuit, a controller, a first DC energy storage and a second DC energy storage, and a compressor. The first DC energy storage and the second DC energy storage have different voltage levels. During the charging mode, the inverter circuit is configured to convert a first AC voltage from an energy source to a first DC voltage, the controller is configured to control the self-configuring matrix power converter to convert the first DC voltage to a first output DC voltage to charge the first DC energy storage, and/or to a second output DC voltage to charge the second DC energy storage.
Claims17
A transport climate control system, comprising:
- a power converter having a charging mode;
- an inverter circuit;
- a controller;
- a first DC energy storage and a second DC energy storage;
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- a compressor,
- wherein the first DC energy storage and the second DC energy storage have different voltage levels;
- wherein during the charging mode, the inverter circuit is configured to convert a first AC voltage from an energy source to a first DC voltage, the controller is configured to control the power converter to convert the first DC voltage to a first output DC voltage to charge the first DC energy storage and to a second output DC voltage to charge the second DC energy storage.
A transport climate control system, comprising:
- a power converter having an operation mode;
- an inverter circuit;
- a controller;
- a first DC energy storage and a second DC energy storage;
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- a compressor,
- wherein the first DC energy storage and the second DC energy storage have different voltage levels;
- wherein during the operation mode, the controller is configured to control the power converter to convert a first input DC voltage from the first DC energy storage to a second DC voltage and to convert a second input DC voltage from the second DC energy storage to the second DC voltage, the inverter circuit is configured to convert the second DC voltage to an AC voltage to drive the compressor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.