US 12,249,924 B2
Power conversion control device
Tomohiro Kimura, Tokyo (JP); Yuji Zushi, Tokyo (JP); and Shozo Kanzaki, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/633,433
Filed by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Aug. 23, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/032961
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 7, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/038617, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0294364 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. H02M 1/08 (2006.01); H02M 1/088 (2006.01); H02M 3/335 (2006.01); H02M 7/537 (2006.01); H02P 27/06 (2006.01); H02P 29/032 (2016.01)
CPC H02M 7/537 (2013.01) [H02M 1/088 (2013.01); H02M 3/33523 (2013.01); H02P 27/06 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A power conversion control device in which a high-voltage side connected to a high-voltage battery being used as a driving-movement power source of an electric automotive vehicle and a low-voltage side connected to a low-voltage battery being used as a control power source of the electric automotive vehicle or to a low-voltage power source being produced by performing buck conversion of a voltage from that of the high-voltage battery are electrically insulated therebetween, and in which a processing device being included on the low-voltage side performs a control on insulated-gate transistors, for use in driving a three-phase motor, to convert direct-current power on the high-voltage side into alternating-current power or to convert alternating-current power from the three-phase motor being generated thereby into direct-current power, the power conversion control device, comprising:
a constant-voltage circuit being included on the low-voltage side, to which electric power is supplied from the low-voltage battery or from the low-voltage power source;
the processing device being included thereon, to which electric power whose voltage is regulated as a first constant voltage is supplied from the constant-voltage circuit;
three-phase motor's gate drive circuitry being included on the high-voltage side, having a plurality of insulated-gate transistors for converting direct-current power obtained from the high-voltage battery into alternating-current power; and
a voltage measurement circuit being included thereon, for measuring a voltage of the high-voltage battery, and the power conversion control device, further comprising:
a plurality of insulating power sources each being placed to bridge between the low-voltage side and the high-voltage side, which are controlled respectively to operate in accordance with control signals from the processing device, to which electric power is supplied from the low-voltage battery or from the low-voltage power source, for outputting a second constant voltage to the high-voltage side;
gate drive circuits each being placed to bridge therebetween, for controlling gates of the plurality of insulated-gate transistors in accordance with an instruction from the low-voltage side; and
an insulating communications circuit being placed to bridge therebetween, for insulating a measurement value of the voltage measurement circuit and for transmitting the measurement value thereof to the low-voltage side, wherein
the insulating power sources are each connected to the gate drive circuits to form respective pairs therebetween;
electric power whose voltage is regulated as the first constant voltage is supplied to the low-voltage side of the insulating communications circuit from the low-voltage battery by way of the constant-voltage circuit, and the high-voltage side of the insulating communications circuit is operated by an assigned insulating power source among the plurality of insulating power sources that are individually controlled by the processing device for making the operation of insulating power source effective and ineffective; and
a signal of a voltage of the high-voltage battery is insulated from the high-voltage side and is transmitted therefrom to the low-voltage side.