Patents by Inventor Chunming TU

Chunming TU has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12424947
    Abstract: An adaptive control method for a fault control-oriented economically-integrated medium-voltage grid-connected device with a silicon carbide (SiC) module, includes: calculating a three-phase bridge arm modulation wave and a fourth bridge arm modulation wave; obtaining a three-phase bridge arm neutral point clamped (NPC) circuit switching signal; obtaining a three-phase bridge arm NPC circuit output voltage; obtaining a fourth bridge arm NPC circuit switching signal; obtaining a fourth bridge arm NPC circuit output voltage; calculating a voltage-stabilizing active vector of each submodule of a cascaded H-bridge (CHB) circuit; obtaining a three-phase bridge arm CHB circuit switching signal; obtaining a fourth bridge arm CHB circuit switching signal based on the fourth bridge arm modulation wave, the fourth bridge arm NPC circuit output voltage, and the voltage-stabilizing active vector of each submodule of the CHB circuit; and performing adaptive control of a grid-connected device based on the CHB circuit switch
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2025
    Assignee: Hunan University
    Inventors: Qi Guo, Fan Xiao, Xin Wang, Fei Jiang, Xiaomeng He, Liu Long, Xinjun Qian, Chunming Tu
  • Patent number: 12385983
    Abstract: An open-circuit fault diagnosis method includes: S1, injecting a switching sequence into a second driving mode of the power device; S2, collecting inverter data and calculating a first output voltage residual; determining whether the first output voltage residual enters a voltage threshold region, and obtaining a first fault flag; if yes, proceeding to step S3; else proceeding to step S4; S3, injecting the switching sequence into an all-driving mode of the power device, collecting inverter data and calculating a second output voltage residual; determining whether the second output voltage residual enters the voltage threshold region, and obtaining a second fault flag; S4, collecting inverter data and calculating a first inductor current pulsation value; and determining whether the first inductor current pulsation value pulsates within an inductor current pulsation region, and obtaining a third fault flag; and S5, performing open-circuit fault diagnosis on the power device based on the fault flags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Hunan University
    Inventors: Fan Xiao, Qi Guo, Yi Jiang, Xing Peng, Liu Long, Chunming Tu, Xin Wang, Zheng Lan
  • Publication number: 20250226765
    Abstract: An adaptive control method for a fault control-oriented economically-integrated medium-voltage grid-connected device with a silicon carbide (SiC) module, includes: calculating a three-phase bridge arm modulation wave and a fourth bridge arm modulation wave; obtaining a three-phase bridge arm neutral point clamped (NPC) circuit switching signal; obtaining a three-phase bridge arm NPC circuit output voltage; obtaining a fourth bridge arm NPC circuit switching signal; obtaining a fourth bridge arm NPC circuit output voltage; calculating a voltage-stabilizing active vector of each submodule of a cascaded H-bridge (CHB) circuit; obtaining a three-phase bridge arm CHB circuit switching signal; obtaining a fourth bridge arm CHB circuit switching signal based on the fourth bridge arm modulation wave, the fourth bridge arm NPC circuit output voltage, and the voltage-stabilizing active vector of each submodule of the CHB circuit; and performing adaptive control of a grid-connected device based on the CHB circuit switch
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Applicant: Hunan University
    Inventors: Qi GUO, Fan XIAO, Xin WANG, Fei JIANG, Xiaomeng HE, Liu LONG, Xinjun QIAN, Chunming TU
  • Publication number: 20250224459
    Abstract: An open-circuit fault diagnosis method includes: S1, injecting a switching sequence into a second driving mode of the power device; S2, collecting inverter data and calculating a first output voltage residual; determining whether the first output voltage residual enters a voltage threshold region, and obtaining a first fault flag; if yes, proceeding to step S3; else proceeding to step S4; S3, injecting the switching sequence into an all-driving mode of the power device, collecting inverter data and calculating a second output voltage residual; determining whether the second output voltage residual enters the voltage threshold region, and obtaining a second fault flag; S4, collecting inverter data and calculating a first inductor current pulsation value; and determining whether the first inductor current pulsation value pulsates within an inductor current pulsation region, and obtaining a third fault flag; and S5, performing open-circuit fault diagnosis on the power device based on the fault flags.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Applicant: Hunan University
    Inventors: Fan XIAO, Qi GUO, Yi JIANG, Xing PENG, Liu LONG, Chunming TU, Xin WANG, Zheng LAN
  • Patent number: 10840704
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method, a system and a storage medium for frequency adjustment of an islanded virtual synchronous micro-grid. The method includes: performing frequency adjustment on inverters in the micro-grid in a cyclic manner until the respective inverters reach rated frequencies; where each cycle includes: determining, in a differential delay manner, an inverter with a highest active output in the micro-grid as a reference unit, and sending a local output factor of the reference unit as a maximum output factor of a current cycle to other inverters; determining, for each inverter in the micro-grid, an active power adjustment amount of the inverter according to the maximum output factor, a preset rated frequency, a local output factor and an actual angular frequency of the inverter; and performing frequency adjustment on the inverter according to the active power adjustment amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Hunan University
    Inventors: Zhikang Shuai, Wen Huang, Chunming Tu, An Luo, Zheng Shen, Xuan Liu
  • Publication number: 20200119550
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method, a system and a storage medium for frequency adjustment of an islanded virtual synchronous micro-grid. The method includes: performing frequency adjustment on inverters in the micro-grid in a cyclic manner until the respective inverters reach rated frequencies; where each cycle includes: determining, in a differential delay manner, an inverter with a highest active output in the micro-grid as a reference unit, and sending a local output factor of the reference unit as a maximum output factor of a current cycle to other inverters; determining, for each inverter in the micro-grid, an active power adjustment amount of the inverter according to the maximum output factor, a preset rated frequency, a local output factor and an actual angular frequency of the inverter; and performing frequency adjustment on the inverter according to the active power adjustment amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Zhikang SHUAI, Wen HUANG, Chunming TU, An LUO, Zheng SHEN, Xuan LIU