# US 12,184,160 B2 · Common-mode voltage suppression method and system for quasi-z-source simplified three-level inverter > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,184,160 B2 - Document ID: US12184160B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/280,336 - Filed: 2022-12-28 - Published: 2024-10-17 - Granted: 2024-12-31 - Earliest claimed: 2022-09-19 - Assignees: Shandong Jianzhu University - Applicants: Shandong Jianzhu University - Inventors: Changwei Qin; Xiaoyan Li; Zhiyuan Chu; Hongliang Zhang; Yanfeng Li - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12184160B2 ## CPC - H02M 1/123: {Suppression of common mode voltage or current} - 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 1/088: for the simultaneous control of series or parallel connected semiconductor devices - H02M 1/44: Circuits or arrangements for compensating for electromagnetic interference in converters or inverters - H02M 7/487: Neutral point clamped inverters - H02M 7/53876: {based on synthesising a desired voltage vector via the selection of appropriate fundamental voltage vectors, and corresponding dwelling times} - H02M 7/5395: by pulse-width modulation - Y02E 10/56: Power conversion systems, e.g. maximum power point trackers - 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) - Y02E: REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION ## Abstract A common-mode voltage suppression method includes: selecting two large and two small vectors with low common-mode voltage magnitudes as basic voltage vectors; writing a volt-second balance equation according to a selected basic voltage vectors, and calculating, an introduced distribution factor of duty cycles of small vectors, initial values of distribution factors of a duty cycle of each basic voltage vector and of small vectors; designing a neutral-point voltage balance controller to obtain and utilize a corrected value of the distribution factor of the duty cycles of the small vectors and the initial values and combine with a set neutral-point voltage balance control threshold to update the duty cycle of each basic voltage vector; and inserting shoot-through states into the small vectors, designing a switching sequence, converting the sequence into a driving signal of a power switch, and controlling an operation of the quasi-Z-source simplified three-level inverter. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A common-mode voltage suppression method for a quasi-Z-source simplified three-level inverter, comprising: judging a sector where a reference voltage vector is located according to a magnitude and a phase angle of the reference voltage vector; selecting two large vectors and two small vectors with low common-mode voltage magnitudes as basic voltage vectors according to the sector where the reference voltage vector is located; writing a volt-second balance equation according to the selected basic voltage vectors, and calculating, in combination with an introduced distribution factor of duty cycles of small vectors, initial values of distribution factors of a duty cycle of each basic voltage vector and duty cycles of small vectors; designing a neutral-point voltage balance controller so as to obtain a corrected value of the distribution factor of the duty cycles of the small vectors; and utilizing the corrected value of the distribution factor of the duty cycles of the small vectors and the initial values and combining with a set neutral-point voltage balance control threshold to update the distribution factor of duty cycles of the small vectors so as to update the duty cycle of each basic voltage vector; and inserting shoot-through states into the small vectors, designing a corresponding switching sequence, converting the switching sequence into a driving signal of a power switch, and controlling an operation of the quasi-Z-source simplified three-level inverter; wherein a process of calculating an initial value of a distribution factor of the duty cycles of the small vectors comprises: calculating a minimum and maximum values of the distribution factor of the duty cycles of the small vectors according to a degree of modulation, the phase angle of the reference voltage vector and a shoot-through duty cycle; and when the reference voltage vector is located in sector 1, the minimum and maximum values of the distribution factor of the duty cycles of the small vectors are respectively: φ min = max ⁢ { 0 , d ST 2 - 2 ⁢ m · sin ⁡ ( π 3 + θ ) , 1 - 3 · m · sin ⁡ ( π 6 + θ ) 1 - m · sin ⁡ ( π 3 + θ ) } ⁢ φ max = min ⁢ { 1 , 1 - d ST 2 - 2 ⁢ m · sin ⁡ ( π 3 + θ ) , m · sin ⁡ ( π 3 - θ ) 1 - m · sin ⁡ ( π 3 + θ ) } wherein m, θ, and dST are the degree of modulation, the phase angle of the reference voltage vector and the shoot-through duty cycle, respectively; and obtaining the initial value of the distribution factor of the duty cycles of the small vectors according to duty cycles of the two large vectors according to an arithmetic mean value of the minimum value and the maximum value of the distribution factor of the duty cycles of small vectors. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The common-mode voltage suppression method for a quasi-Z-source simplified three-level inverter according to claim 1, wherein the basic voltage vectors with low common-mode voltage magnitudes are selected, which includes: six large vectors, six small vectors with low common-mode voltage magnitudes, one zero vector with a low common-mode voltage magnitude, and six shoot-through vectors. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The common-mode voltage suppression method for a quasi-Z-source simplified three-level inverter according to claim 1, wherein calculating a duty cycle of each basic voltage vector specifically comprises: substituting expressions of the two large vectors, expressions of the two small vectors and the phase angle of the reference voltage vector to the volt-second balance equation to get a sum of the duty cycles of the two small vectors, and introducing a distribution factor of the duty cycles of the small vectors to obtain the duty cycles of the two small vectors; obtaining duty cycles of the two large vectors according to the distribution factor of duty cycles of the small vectors; and obtaining the duty cycle of each basic voltage vector. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The common-mode voltage suppression method for a quasi-Z-source simplified three-level inverter according to claim 1, wherein designing a neutral-point voltage balance controller so as to obtain a corrected value of the distribution factor of the duty cycles of the small vectors specifically comprises: sampling voltages at both ends of capacitors C2 and C3 in a quasi-Z-source network to calculate a deviation of the voltages of the two capacitors and sending the deviation to a PI regulator, and taking an absolute value of an output of the PI regulator to calculate a corrected value ynp of the distribution factor of the duty cycles of the small vectors, that is y np = ❘ "\[LeftBracketingBar]" ( k p , np + k i , np s ) · ( V C ⁢ 2 - V C ⁢ 3 ) ❘ "\[RightBracketingBar]" VC2 and VC3 are the voltages at both ends of the capacitors C2 and C3 respectively, kp,np and ki,np are parameters of the PI regulator. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The common-mode voltage suppression method for a quasi-Z-source simplified three-level inverter according to claim 1, wherein the process of updating the distribution factor of duty cycles of the small vectors comprises: setting a neutral-point voltage balance control threshold ΔVnp_th according to requirements of the neutral-point voltage balance control of the system; and updating, according to the voltage deviation of the sector where the reference voltage vector is located and the voltages of capacitors C2 and C3, the distribution factor of the duty cycles of the small vectors by using the corrected value of the distribution factor of the duty cycles of the small vectors; when −ΔVnp_thΔVnp_th, updating the distribution factor of duty cycles of small vectors as follows φ = φ 0 + y np when the reference voltage vector is located in sector 1, sector 3, or sector 5, and VC2−VC3<−ΔVnp_th, updating the distribution factor of duty cycles of small vectors as follows φ = φ 0 - y np when the reference voltage vector is located in sector 2, sector 4, or sector 6, and VC2−VC3>ΔVnp_th, updating the distribution factor of duty cycles of small vectors as follows φ = φ 0 - y np when the reference voltage vector is located in sector 2, sector 4, or sector 6, and VC2−VC3<−ΔVnp_th, updating the distribution factor of duty cycles of small vectors as follows φ = φ 0 + y np . ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The common-mode voltage suppression method for a quasi-Z-source simplified three-level inverter according to claim 1, wherein inserting shoot-through states into the small vectors, and designing a corresponding switching sequence specifically comprises: inserting a down-shoot-through state into P-type small vectors and inserting an up-shoot-through state into N-type small vectors; when the reference voltage vector is in sector 1, designing the switching sequence as: PNN-UUN-OON-PPN-PDD-POO-PDD-PPN-OON-UUN-PNN; when the reference voltage vector is in sector 2, designing the switching sequence as: PPN-DPD-OPO-NPN-UUN-OON-UUN-NPN-OPO-DPD-PPN; when the reference voltage vector is in sector 3, designing the switching sequence as: NPN-NUU-NOO-NPP-DPD-OPO-DPD-NPP-NOO-NUU-NPN; when the reference voltage vector is in sector 4, designing the switching sequence as: NPP-DDP-OOP-NNP-NUU-NOO-NUU-NNP-OOP-DDP-NPP; when the reference voltage vector is in sector 5, designing the switching sequence as: NNP-UNU-ONO-PNP-DDP-OOP-DDP-PNP-ONO-UNU-NNP; when the reference voltage vector is in sector 6, designing the switching sequence as: PNP-PDD-POO-PNN-UNU-ONO-UNU-PNN-POO-PDD-PNP. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) A computer-readable storage medium on which a computer program is stored that, when executed by a processor, implements the steps in the common-mode voltage suppression method for a quasi-Z-source simplified three-level inverter according to claim 1. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) A computer device comprising a memory, a processor and a computer program stored in the memory and is capable of being run on the processor, wherein the processor executes the program to implement the steps in the common-mode voltage suppression method for a quasi-Z-source simplified three-level inverter according to claim 1.