# US 9,520,809 B2 · Rotary electric machine driving device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,520,809 B2 - Document ID: US9520809B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/761,904 - Filed: 2014-03-26 - Published: 2015-12-10 - Granted: 2016-12-13 - Earliest claimed: 2013-03-29 - Assignees: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Subrata Saha; Hirohisa Totani - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9520809B2 ## CPC - H02M 7/5395: by pulse-width modulation - H02M 1/15: using active elements - H02P 27/06: using DC to AC converters or inverters (H02P27/05 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 rotary electric machine driving device including: an inverter that is electrically interposed between a direct-current power supply and the rotary electric machine, and converts electric power between a direct current and an alternating current; a smoothing capacitor that is electrically interposed between the direct-current power supply and the inverter, and is connected between a positive pole and a negative pole on a direct-current side of the inverter; an inverter control unit that controls switching of a switching element of the inverter according to a predetermined switching frequency; and an inductance control unit that switches a direct-current side inductance between a positive pole of the direct-current power supply and a positive pole of the smoothing capacitor, according to the switching frequency, between a predefined standard inductance and a high inductance that is higher than the standard inductance. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A rotary electric machine driving device that drives and controls an alternating-current rotary electric machine, the rotary electric machine driving device comprising: an inverter that is electrically interposed between a direct-current power supply and the rotary electric machine, and converts electric power between a direct current and an alternating current; a smoothing capacitor that is electrically interposed between the direct-current power supply and the inverter, and is connected between a positive pole and a negative pole on a direct-current side of the inverter; an inverter control unit that controls switching of a switching element of the inverter according to a predetermined switching frequency; and an inductance control unit that switches a direct-current side inductance between a positive pole of the direct-current power supply and a positive pole of the smoothing capacitor, according to the switching frequency, between a predefined standard inductance and a high inductance that is higher than the standard inductance, wherein in a frequency characteristic of a direct-current side voltage gain obtained by dividing a system voltage that is a voltage on the direct-current side of the inverter by a system current that is a current on the direct-current side of the inverter, a first frequency is a frequency at which a value of the direct-current side voltage gain corresponding to the standard inductance is equal to a value of the direct-current side voltage gain corresponding to the high inductance, in a frequency characteristic of the direct-current side current gain obtained by dividing a power supply current that is a current flowing through the direct-current power supply by the system current, a second frequency is a frequency at which a value of the direct-current side current gain corresponding to the standard inductance is equal to a value of the direct-current side current gain corresponding to the high inductance, and the inductance control unit switches the direct-current side inductance to the standard inductance when the switching frequency is lower than a frequency of a switching point set in a frequency range between the first frequency and the second frequency and to the high inductance when the switching frequency is higher than the frequency of the switching point. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The rotary electric machine driving device according to claim 1, wherein the standard inductance, the high inductance, and the frequency of the switching point are set so that pulsation amplitude of the system voltage falls within a predefined allowable range. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The rotary electric machine driving device according to claim 2, wherein the standard inductance, the high inductance, and the frequency of the switching point are set so that pulsation amplitude of the power supply current falls within a predefined allowable range. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The rotary electric machine driving device according to claim 3, wherein in a case where a margin of pulsation amplitude of the power supply current with respect to the predefined allowable range for the power supply current when the switching frequency is the first frequency is larger than a margin of pulsation amplitude of the system voltage with respect to the predefined allowable range for the system voltage when the switching frequency is the second frequency, the frequency of the switching point is set closer to the first frequency than a median value of the first frequency and the second frequency, and in a case where the margin of the pulsation amplitude of the power supply current with respect to the allowable range thereof when the switching frequency is the first frequency is smaller than the margin of the pulsation amplitude of the system voltage with respect to the allowable range thereof when the switching frequency is the second frequency, the frequency of the switching point is set closer to the second frequency than the median value. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The rotary electric machine driving device according to claim 2, wherein in a case where a margin of pulsation amplitude of the power supply current with respect to the predefined allowable range for the power supply current when the switching frequency is the first frequency is larger than a margin of pulsation amplitude of the system voltage with respect to the predefined allowable range for the system voltage when the switching frequency is the second frequency, the frequency of the switching point is set closer to the first frequency than a median value of the first frequency and the second frequency, and in a case where the margin of the pulsation amplitude of the power supply current with respect to the allowable range thereof when the switching frequency is the first frequency is smaller than the margin of the pulsation amplitude of the system voltage with respect to the allowable range thereof when the switching frequency is the second frequency, the frequency of the switching point is set closer to the second frequency than the median value. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The rotary electric machine driving device according to claim 1, wherein the standard inductance, the high inductance, and the frequency of the switching point are set so that pulsation amplitude of the power supply current falls within a predefined allowable range. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The rotary electric machine driving device according to claim 1, wherein in a case where a margin of pulsation amplitude of the power supply current with respect to the predefined allowable range for the power supply current when the switching frequency is the first frequency is larger than a margin of pulsation amplitude of the system voltage with respect to the predefined allowable range for the system voltage when the switching frequency is the second frequency, the frequency of the switching point is set closer to the first frequency than a median value of the first frequency and the second frequency, and in a case where the margin of the pulsation amplitude of the power supply current with respect to the allowable range thereof when the switching frequency is the first frequency is smaller than the margin of the pulsation amplitude of the system voltage with respect to the allowable range thereof when the switching frequency is the second frequency, the frequency of the switching point is set closer to the second frequency than the median value.