Power converter and air conditioner
AssigneeDaikin Industries, Ltd.
InventorsShinichi Ishizeki, Kentarou Taoka, Masahide Fujiwara, Motonobu Ikeda
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Abstract
Malfunctions of a switching device included in a power factor corrector are reduced when an instantaneous voltage drop or an instantaneous power failure occurs. If the instantaneous voltage drop or the instantaneous power failure occurs in an AC power source while the power factor corrector is performing a power factor correction operation by boosting an input voltage, an instantaneous power failure controller turns off the switching device included in the power factor corrector so that the power factor correction operation stops. When the commercial power source recovers, too, the power factor corrector suspends the power factor correction operation.
Claims12
A power converter comprising:
- a rectifier configured to rectify an input alternate current from an AC power source;
- a power factor corrector including a reactor and a switching device which switches between accumulation and discharge of energy, based on an input voltage output from the rectifier, in and out of the reactor, and configured to be capable of performing a power factor correction operation by boosting the input voltage;
- an input voltage detector configured to periodically detect the input voltage;
- an output voltage detector configured to periodically detect an output voltage from the power factor corrector;
- a power converter connected to an output of the power factor corrector, and configured to generate output AC power;
- and
- a controller configured to control the power factor correction operation by the power factor corrector, wherein
- the controller is configured to:
- determine a target value of the output voltage to be output by the power factor corrector, based on a result of detection by the input voltage detector;
- determine occurrence of an instantaneous voltage drop or an instantaneous power failure if a difference between the target value of the output voltage and a result of the detection by the output voltage detector is greater than a predetermined difference;
- turn the switching device off so that the power factor correction operation stops, if the instantaneous voltage drop or the instantaneous power failure occurs in the AC power source while the power factor corrector is performing the power factor correction operation;
- and
- leave the power factor correction operation stopped when the AC power source recovers, and
- a detection period whereby the input voltage detector periodically detects the input voltage is longer than a detection period whereby the output voltage detector periodically detects the output voltage from the power factor corrector, such that the instantaneous voltage drop or the instantaneous power failure causes a smaller drop in the result of detection by the input voltage detector than the result of detection by the output voltage detector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.