Abstract:
A power factor correction system includes a rectifier that rectifies the voltage of an alternating current (ac) power source to produce a voltage waveform that transitions, in a half sinusoid, from a minimum amplitude to a maximum amplitude and back to the minimum amplitude twice in the period of the ac power source. A phase winding of a motor conveys current induced by the voltage waveform, and a regulator regulates the flow of the current conveyed by the phase winding for storage as energy in a storage component.
Abstract:
A driver includes a sensor sensing a driving current and a driving voltage for an external device including a capacitor, a PWM, a PFC, and a controller. The PFC includes a phase angle estimation unit estimating a phase angle variation of an input voltage to the PFC based on a parameter regarding the driving current, a voltage compensator compensating an error of the driving voltage, a first current estimation unit estimating a variation of a charge of the capacitor based on the charge current and the phase angle variation estimated by the phase angle estimation unit, a second current estimation unit estimating a driving current variation, and a calculator calculating a duty ratio for the PWM based on the variation of the charge current estimated by the first current estimation unit and the driving current variation estimated by the second current estimation unit.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce loss due to passing of a compensation current by outputting the compensation current to a section other than a section where a leakage current is not remarkable.SOLUTION: A diode bridge 11 has a pair of input terminals receiving an alternate current from an AC power supply 3 and a pair of output terminals 111 and 112 outputting a direct current. A step-up chopper circuit 12 is connected to the pair of output terminals 111 and 112 and steps-up a DC voltage inputted thereto. The step-up chopper circuit 12 functions as a power-factor improvement circuit. A smoothing capacitor 13 is connected to an output side of the step-up chopper circuit 12 and smooths a voltage across both the terminals. An inverter 14 receives the voltage across both the terminals of the smoothing capacitor 13 and provides an AC power to a load 4. A leakage-current reduction device 2 outputs a compensation current Ic that compensates a leakage current Ia leaking from the load 4. The leakage current reduction device 2 outputs the compensation current Ic at a point other than the neighborhood of the zero cross of the alternate current inputted from the AC power supply 3.
Abstract:
By outputting a compensation current in segments other than those during which leakage current is not prominent, this power conversion circuit reduces loss due to providing a compensation current. A diode bridge (11) has a pair of input terminals which input an alternating current from an AC source (3), and a pair of output terminals (111, 112) which output a direct current. A step-up chopper circuit (12) is connected to the pair of output terminals (111, 112), and steps up the inputted direct current voltage. The step-up chopper circuit (12) functions as a power factor correction circuit. A smoothing capacitor (13) is connected to the output side of the step-up chopper circuit (12) and smooths the voltage between the two terminals. An inverter (14) inputs the voltage between both terminals of the smoothing capacitor (13) and applies the AC power to the load (4). A leakage current reduction device (2) outputs a compensation current (Ic) which compensates for the leakage current (Ia) leaked from the load (4). The leakage current reduction device (2) outputs a compensation voltage (Ic) outside of the vicinity of the zero-cross points of the alternating current inputted from the AC source (3).
Abstract:
An electric motor drive apparatus comprising a voltage converter component arranged to receive a supply voltage signal and output a bus voltage signal, and a motor driver component arranged to receive the bus voltage signal and generate at least one drive signal for an electric motor from the bus voltage signal. The motor driver component is arranged to output a bus voltage feedback signal to the voltage converter component. The voltage converter component is arranged to regulate a voltage level of the bus voltage signal based at least partly on the bus voltage feedback signal output by the motor driver component.