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US 2024/0181887 A1Published application
Configurable power inverter
AssigneeMercedes-Benz Group AG
InventorsEric Pawelkowski, Agasthya Ayachit
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Abstract
Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to electronic systems, devices, and/or modules such as a power inverter that is configurable and may have input power ports to receive the direct current voltage, a plurality of output power ports to provide single-phase, two-phase, or phase alternating current power, and signal ports to receive commands to select single-phase, two-phase, or three-phase alternating current power.
Claims20
An electronics module to operate as a configurable power inverter, the electronics module comprising:
- switching circuitry arranged to convert direct current (DC) input power into single-phase, two-phase, or three-phase alternating current (AC) output power;
- one or more switch controllers to operate to:
- receive, as a first set of input signals, input signals from a communications bus to direct operation of the switching circuitry to generate the single-phase, two-phase, or three-phase AC output power;
- and to
- receive, as a second set of input signals, input signals from the communications bus to implement soft turn on and/or substantially zero-current switching of the AC output power.
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An electronics module, comprising:
- a switch block, the switch block to receive direct current (DC) power and to generate alternating current (AC) power;
- a control block, the control block to transmit signals to the switch block, the transmitted signals to direct the switch block to generate single-phase, two-phase, or three-phase AC output power;
- a heatsink block, the heatsink block to receive thermal energy from the switch block and to dissipate the thermal energy;
- and
- a filter block coupled to the heatsink block, the filter block to introduce a capacitance between an input power portion of the switch block and an output power portion of the switch block.
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A vehicle, comprising:
- one or more batteries;
- one or more input power ports to receive direct current (DC) power;
- a prepackaged electronics module comprising:
- a plurality of output power ports to provide single-phase, two-phase, or three-phase alternating current (AC) power;
- a first set of one or more input signal ports, the first set of one or more input signal ports to receive commands to select the single-phase, the two-phase, or the three-phase AC power;
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- one or more pieces of equipment of the vehicle to receive the single-phase, the two-phase, or the three-phase AC power.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.