# US 2021/0281159 A1 · Power conversion device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2021/0281159 A1 - Document ID: US20210281159A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 17/258,458 - Filed: 2018-09-28 - Published: 2021-09-09 - Earliest claimed: 2018-09-28 - Assignees: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation - Applicants: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation - Inventors: Yu KAWAI - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20210281159A1 ## CPC - H02M 1/0009: {Devices or circuits for detecting current in a converter} - H02M 1/0003: {Details of control, feedback or regulation circuits} - H02M 1/08: Circuits specially adapted for the generation of control voltages for semiconductor devices incorporated in static converters - H02M 3/158: including plural semiconductor devices as final control devices for a single load - H02M 7/53871: {with automatic control of output voltage or current} - H02P 6/28: Arrangements for controlling current (H02P6/10 takes precedence) - 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) - H02P: CONTROL OR REGULATION OF ELECTRIC MOTORS, ELECTRIC GENERATORS OR DYNAMO-ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; CONTROLLING TRANSFORMERS, REACTORS OR CHOKE COILS ## Abstract A PWM control unit generates signals for controlling switching elements in respective legs based on the magnitude relationship between individual Duty commands for the respective legs and triangular wave carriers having different initial phases and having a common cycle, a current estimation unit acquires detected values from a current detector at a sampling cycle different from the carrier cycle and estimates the phase currents, and a current control unit adjusts Duty commands so that the estimated phase currents coincide with target values for the phase currents. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A power conversion device comprising: a power conversion circuitry including a plurality of legs each formed by connecting a pair of two arms on upper and lower sides, each arm including a switching element, where current flowing through a path connected to a middle point between the two arms in each leg is defined as phase current, both ends of each of the plurality of legs being connected to a common DC bus; a current detector to measure current flowing through the common DC bus; a PWM control circuitry to generate ON/OFF signals for controlling the switching elements of the upper and lower arms in the legs; a current estimation circuitry to estimate the phase current; and a current control circuitry to control the phase current, wherein the PWM control circuitry generates the ON/OFF signals for controlling the switching elements in the legs based on a magnitude relationship between individual Duty commands for the respective legs and triangular wave carriers having different initial phases for the respective legs and having a common cycle, the current estimation circuitry acquires detected values from the current detector at a fixed sampling cycle different from the carrier cycle of the triangular wave carriers, and estimates the phase currents of the legs, and the current control circuitry adjusts the Duty commands so that the estimated phase currents coincide with target values for the phase currents. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The power conversion device according to claim 1, wherein the current estimation circuitry acquires the detected values from the current detector at the sampling cycle different from the carrier cycle and synchronized with a timing coinciding with a maximum value or a minimum value of a plurality of the triangular wave carriers, and estimates the phase currents. ### Claim 3 (canceled) ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The power conversion device according to claim 1, wherein the current estimation circuitry estimates the phase currents of the legs, using the detected values from the current detector, a number of which is equal to a number of the phase currents. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The power conversion device according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the triangular wave carriers in the PWM control circuitry have different initial phase differences. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The power conversion device according to claim 1, wherein different DC power supplies or a common DC power supply is connected to a plurality of the paths for the phase currents of the power conversion circuitry. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The power conversion device according to claim 1, wherein a single-phase AC power supply or a multiple-phase AC power supply is connected to a plurality of the paths for the phase currents of the power conversion circuitry. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The power conversion device according to claim 1, wherein a DC power supply and an AC power supply are connected to a plurality of the paths for the phase currents of the power conversion circuitry. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The power conversion device according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the paths for the phase currents of the power conversion circuitry are connected to a transformer path on a primary side or a secondary side of an isolation converter that operates with a phase shift. ### Claim 10 (canceled) ### Claim 11 A power conversion device comprising: a power conversion circuitry including a plurality of legs each formed by connecting a pair of two arms on upper and lower sides, each arm including a switching element, where current flowing through a path connected to a middle point between the two arms in each leg is defined as phase current, both ends of each of the plurality of legs being connected to a common DC bus; a current detector to measure current flowing through the common DC bus; a PWM control circuitry to generate ON/OFF signals for controlling the switching elements of the upper and lower arms in the legs; a current estimation circuitry to estimate the phase current; and a current control circuitry to control the phase current, wherein a transformer path on a primary side or a secondary side of an isolation converter that operates with a phase shift is connected to a plurality of the paths for the phase currents of the power conversion circuitry, the PWM control circuitry generates the ON/OFF signals for controlling the switching elements in the legs based on a magnitude relationship between individual phase shift commands for the respective legs and triangular wave carriers having different initial phases for the respective legs and having a common cycle, the current estimation circuitry acquires detected values from the current detector at a sampling cycle different from the carrier cycle of the triangular wave carriers and synchronized with a timing coinciding with a maximum value and a minimum value of a plurality of the triangular wave carriers, and estimates the phase currents, and the current control circuitry adjusts the phase shift commands so that the estimated phase currents coincide with target values for the phase currents. ### Claim 12 (depends on 2) The power conversion device according to claim 2, wherein the sampling cycle is equal to or greater than 1/2 of the common cycle of the plurality of the triangular wave carriers. ### Claim 13 (depends on 2) The power conversion device according to claim 2, wherein the sampling cycle is set so that the detected value is detected only one or two times in one cycle of the triangular wave carriers. ### Claim 14 (depends on 2) The power conversion device according to claim 2, wherein the sampling cycle is set so that acquiring timing of the detected values coincides with the timing of a maximum value or a minimal value successively. ### Claim 15 A power conversion device comprising: a power conversion circuitry including a plurality of legs each formed by connecting a pair of two arms on upper and lower sides, each arm including a switching element, where current flowing through a path connected to a middle point between the two arms in each leg is defined as phase current, both ends of each of the plurality of legs being connected to a common DC bus; a current detector to measure current flowing through the common DC bus; a PWM control circuitry to generate ON/OFF signals for controlling the switching elements of the upper and lower arms in the legs; a current estimation circuitry to estimate the phase current; and a current control circuitry to control the phase current, wherein the PWM control circuitry generates the ON/OFF signals for controlling the switching elements in the legs based on a magnitude relationship between individual Duty commands for the respective legs and triangular wave carriers having different initial phases for the respective legs and having a common cycle, the current estimation circuitry acquires detected values from the current detector at a sampling cycle different from the carrier cycle of the triangular wave carriers, and estimates the phase currents of the legs, and the current control circuitry adjusts the Duty commands so that the estimated phase currents coincide with target values for the phase currents, and wherein the current control circuitry adjusts the Duty commands so that the estimated phase currents coincide with the target values for the phase currents, at a cycle synchronized with a time equal to or greater than a least common multiple of the carrier cycle and the sampling cycle. ### Claim 16 A power conversion device comprising: a power conversion circuitry including a plurality of legs each formed by connecting a pair of two arms on upper and lower sides, each arm including a switching element, where current flowing through a path connected to a middle point between the two arms in each leg is defined as phase current, both ends of each of the plurality of legs being connected to a common DC bus; a current detector to measure current flowing through the common DC bus; a PWM control circuitry to generate ON/OFF signals for controlling the switching elements of the upper and lower arms in the legs; a current estimation circuitry to estimate the phase current; and a current control circuitry to control the phase current, wherein the PWM control circuitry generates the ON/OFF signals for controlling the switching elements in the legs based on a magnitude relationship between individual Duty commands for the respective legs and triangular wave carriers having different initial phases for the respective legs and having a common cycle, the current estimation circuitry acquires detected values from the current detector at a sampling cycle different from the carrier cycle of the triangular wave carriers, and estimates the phase currents of the legs, and the current control circuitry adjusts the Duty commands so that the estimated phase currents coincide with target values for the phase currents, wherein a DC power supply and an AC power supply are connected to a plurality of the paths for the phase currents of the power conversion circuitry, and wherein the PWM control circuitry generates the ON/OFF signals for controlling the switching elements in the legs, such that the ON/OFF signals have a same pulse waveform with different initial phases for the respective legs, based on individual phase shift commands for the respective legs, the current estimation circuitry acquires the detected values from the current detector at a sampling cycle different from a cycle of the ON/OFF signals, and estimates the phase currents for the respective legs at a cycle synchronized with a time equal to or greater than a least common multiple of the sampling cycle and the cycle of the ON/OFF signals, and the current control circuitry adjusts the phase shift commands so that the estimated phase currents coincide with the target values for the phase currents. ### Claim 17 (depends on 2) The power conversion device according to claim 2, wherein the current estimation circuitry estimates the phase currents of the legs, using the detected values from the current detector, a number of which is equal to a number of the phase currents. ### Claim 18 (depends on 2) The power conversion device according to claim 2, wherein a plurality of the triangular wave carriers in the PWM control circuitry have different initial phase differences. ### Claim 19 (depends on 2) The power conversion device according to claim 2, wherein different DC power supplies or a common DC power supply is connected to a plurality of the paths for the phase currents of the power conversion circuitry. ### Claim 20 (depends on 2) The power conversion device according to claim 2, wherein a single-phase AC power supply or a multiple-phase AC power supply is connected to a plurality of the paths for the phase currents of the power conversion circuitry. ### Claim 21 (depends on 2) The power conversion device according to claim 2, wherein a DC power supply and an AC power supply are connected to a plurality of the paths for the phase currents of the power conversion circuitry. ### Claim 22 (depends on 2) The power conversion device according to claim 2, wherein a plurality of the paths for the phase currents of the power conversion circuitry are connected to a transformer path on a primary side or a secondary side of an isolation converter that operates with a phase shift.