Patents by Inventor Kai Xin

Kai Xin 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: 11133751
    Abstract: This application discloses an apparatus, an inverter system, and a method for synchronizing carriers. The apparatus includes a modulation unit, a current processing unit, and a control unit. The control unit can adjust, based on a change trend between an amplitude of a first harmonic current and an amplitude of a second harmonic current and a change trend between a phase of a first carrier and a phase of a second carrier, a phase of an input carrier input into the modulation unit, to decrease an amplitude of a harmonic current output by an inverter and improve stability of a distributed power supply system. Further, a prior-art problem that impact of a harmonic current on a power supply system cannot be reduced by synchronizing carriers in a process of synchronizing carriers based on a zero sequence current is avoided, thereby improving the stability of the distributed power supply system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fangcheng Liu, Xiongfei Wang, Kai Xin
  • Publication number: 20210098993
    Abstract: A photovoltaic power system includes a DC/AC inverter circuit, N DC/DC converter circuits that are located at a previous stage of the DC/AC inverter circuit and that are respectively connected to photovoltaic strings, and a controller connected to the DC/AC inverter circuit and the N DC/DC converter circuits. The controller is configured to: perform MPPT control on n DC/DC converter circuits, and perform CPG control on (N-n) DC/DC converter circuits. In the two control manners, a fast and accurate power reserve or limit of a photovoltaic string inverter with any illumination intensity and ambient temperature can be implemented, and fluctuation of a DC bus voltage and AC output power of the photovoltaic string inverter can be eliminated. Control on a virtual synchronous generator of the photovoltaic string inverter is implemented, and a lifespan of the photovoltaic string inverter is prolonged, without a need to add an energy storage element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Rongliang SHI, Kai XIN, Yunfeng LIU
  • Publication number: 20210058030
    Abstract: One example method includes obtaining output powers at initial scanning points of photovoltaic strings in a first group and a second group. The output powers at the initial scan points of the photovoltaic strings in the first group can then be controlled to sequentially decrease, and the output powers at the initial scan points of the photovoltaic strings in the second group can then be controlled to sequentially increase. Scanning can then be performed in the initial scanning direction starting from output voltages corresponding to the output powers at the initial scan points of the first group. Scanning can then be performed in the initial scanning direction starting from output voltages corresponding to the output powers at the initial scan points of the second group, where output powers of the first group and the second group are kept to compensate each other during IV curve scanning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Fangcheng LIU, Kai XIN, Xinyu YU
  • Publication number: 20210044110
    Abstract: An inverter includes an inverter circuit; an alternating current filter, where an input port of the alternating current filter is connected to an output port of the inverter circuit; an alternating current electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter; and a first alternating current switch, connected between an output port of the alternating current filter and an input port of the alternating current EMI filter. The first split capacitor is disposed between the first alternating current switch and the input port of the alternating current EMI filter; and when the first alternating current switch is turned off, the first split capacitor is disconnected from the output port of the alternating current filter, and the first split capacitor is connected to a circuit in which an alternating current system connected to the output port of the alternating current EMI filter is located, to suppress harmonic distortion of the alternating current system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Rongliang SHI, Zhangping SHAO, Kai XIN
  • Publication number: 20210036520
    Abstract: A control method for a string inverter, comprising: in a current/voltage (IV) curve scanning process, controlling an output power of an inverter circuit to be a specified power reference value, and controlling an output voltage of each non-IV curve scanning direct current (DC) to DC (DC-DC) circuit to be a specified voltage reference value, where the specified power reference value is less than or equal to a sum of input powers of all non-IV curve scanning DC-DC circuits the before IV curve scanning process, and where the specified voltage reference value is greater than or equal to a preset percentage of a maximum value in open-circuit voltages, before the IV curve scanning process, of photovoltaic strings connected to all IV curve scanning DC-DC circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Xinyu Yu, Kai Xin, Fangcheng Liu
  • Publication number: 20200326385
    Abstract: A method for processing a direct current electric arc and an apparatus, includes: obtaining a first current which is a direct current input current of a direct current cable of a photovoltaic cell system; obtaining a second current, where the second current is a direct current common mode current of a direct current cable or an alternating current common mode current of an alternating current cable; calculating a correlation coefficient between a frequency domain component of the first current and a frequency domain component of the second current; and when determining that the first current meets an electric arc occurrence condition and the correlation coefficient is greater than or equal to a preset coefficient threshold, skipping sending a direct current electric arc fault alarm. The correlation coefficient is used to reflect a proportion of common mode noise generated by the second current, and the preset coefficient threshold is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Fangcheng LIU, Kai XIN, Yunfeng LIU
  • Publication number: 20200328697
    Abstract: A control method and apparatus for a single-phase five-level converter are provided. The method includes: obtaining a first-phase initial modulated wave and a second-phase initial modulated wave of the single-phase five-level converter; obtaining a first-level modulated wave, a second-level modulated wave, a third-level modulated wave, a fourth-level modulated wave, and a fifth-level modulated wave that are output by the single-phase five-level converter; calculating the first-level modulated wave, the second-level modulated wave, the third-level modulated wave, the fourth-level modulated wave, the fifth-level modulated wave, the first-phase initial modulated wave, and the second-phase initial modulated wave, to obtain a common-mode modulated wave of the single-phase five-level converter; and calculating the first-phase initial modulated wave, the second-phase initial modulated wave, and the common-mode modulated wave, to obtain a pulse-width modulated wave of the single-phase five-level converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Fangcheng LIU, Kai XIN, Yunfeng LIU
  • Patent number: 10776176
    Abstract: A service control method and a service control apparatus, where the method includes obtaining, a current electricity grid electricity price and a quantity of to-be-executed services, determining an electricity price threshold according to the quantity of the to-be-executed services, decreasing, by the service control apparatus, a quantity of services that are about to be executed by a first quantity when the current electricity grid electricity price is greater than the electricity price threshold, and executing a service according to a reduced quantity of services that are about to be executed, or increasing, by the service control apparatus, a quantity of services that are about to be executed by a second quantity, and executing a service according to an increased quantity of services that are about to be executed when the current electricity grid electricity price is less than the electricity price threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaosheng Zeng, Kai Xin, Xiaowen Dong
  • Patent number: 10719371
    Abstract: A service control method and a service control apparatus, where the method includes obtaining, a current electricity grid electricity price and a quantity of to-be-executed services, determining an electricity price threshold according to the quantity of the to-be-executed services, decreasing, by the service control apparatus, a quantity of services that are about to be executed by a first quantity when the current electricity grid electricity price is greater than the electricity price threshold, and executing a service according to a reduced quantity of services that are about to be executed, or increasing, by the service control apparatus, a quantity of services that are about to be executed by a second quantity, and executing a service according to an increased quantity of services that are about to be executed when the current electricity grid electricity price is less than the electricity price threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaosheng Zeng, Kai Xin, Xiaowen Dong
  • Patent number: 10715056
    Abstract: A three-phase converter configured to be coupled between a direct current system and an alternating current system to perform interconversion between a direct current and an alternating current, where the three-phase converter includes a switching network, a three-phase filter coupled to the switching network, a sampling circuit coupled to the three-phase filter, a control circuit coupled to the three-phase sampling circuit, an active damping circuit coupled to the control circuit and the sampling circuit, and a modulation circuit coupled between the active damping circuit and the switching network, where the sampling circuit is configured to obtain three-phase currents in the three-phase filter, and send the three-phase currents to the active damping circuit, the active damping circuit is configured to obtain new three-phase modulated waves according to the three-phase currents, and transmit the new three-phase modulated waves to the modulation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fangcheng Liu, Kai Xin, Haibin Guo
  • Patent number: 10666159
    Abstract: A single-phase converter control method and apparatus, includes calculating on a voltage corresponding to a first level output by a single-phase converter, a voltage corresponding to a second level output by the single-phase converter, and a voltage reference value about the voltage corresponding to the first level and the voltage corresponding to the second level to obtain a common-mode modulated-wave change rate of the single-phase converter, where the first level is a direct-current-side positive-bus level, and the second level is a direct-current-side negative-bus level, calculating on a first-phase initial modulated wave of the single-phase converter, a second-phase initial modulated wave of the single-phase converter, and the common-mode modulated-wave change rate to obtain a common-mode modulated wave of the single-phase converter, and calculating on the first-phase initial modulated wave, the second-phase initial modulated wave, and the common-mode modulated wave to obtain a pulse width modulated wave
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fangcheng Liu, Kai Xin, Yunfeng Liu
  • Patent number: 10637249
    Abstract: An inverter anti-islanding control system includes a phase-shift loop (10) and a drive circuit (20). The phase-shift loop (10) includes a first input end (11), a second input end (12), a third input end (13), a fourth input end (14), a first output end (15), and a second output end (16). The drive circuit (20) includes a first input end (21), a second input end (22), a third input end (23), and an output end (24). The first output end (15) of the phase-shift loop (10) is connected to the first input end (21) of the drive circuit (20), and the second output end (16) of the phase-shift loop (10) is connected to the second input end (22) of the drive circuit (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhangping Shao, Kai Xin, Haibin Guo
  • Publication number: 20200127580
    Abstract: This application discloses an apparatus, an inverter system, and a method for synchronizing carriers. The apparatus includes a modulation unit, a current processing unit, and a control unit. The control unit can adjust, based on a change trend between an amplitude of a first harmonic current and an amplitude of a second harmonic current and a change trend between a phase of a first carrier and a phase of a second carrier, a phase of an input carrier input into the modulation unit, to decrease an amplitude of a harmonic current output by an inverter and improve stability of a distributed power supply system. Further, a prior-art problem that impact of a harmonic current on a power supply system cannot be reduced by synchronizing carriers in a process of synchronizing carriers based on a zero sequence current is avoided, thereby improving the stability of the distributed power supply system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Fangcheng LIU, Xiongfei WANG, Kai XIN
  • Patent number: 10630163
    Abstract: A pulse width modulation method, a pulse width modulation system, and a controller are provided, which change a change rate of a common-mode component of a three-phase converter upon a change of a converter modulation degree, thereby improving stability and harmonic characteristics of the three-phase converter and implementing flexible adaptive adjustment. An example pulse width modulation method includes: obtaining initial three-phase modulation waves and a converter modulation degree; calculating a common-mode-component change-rate adjustment coefficient based on preset modulation parameters and the converter modulation degree; selecting a modulation wave having a minimum absolute value from the modulation wave set as a common-mode modulation wave; and performing waveform superposition on the initial three-phase modulation waves and the common-mode modulation wave to obtain output three-phase modulation waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fangcheng Liu, Kai Xin, Haibin Guo
  • Patent number: 10488450
    Abstract: An islanding detection method and apparatus for an inverter, and a power supply system to resolve a problem that an existing voltage total harmonic distortion (THD)-based islanding detection method has low islanding detection reliability due to existence of a relatively large detection dead zone. According to this detection method, the voltage total harmonic distortion changes more significantly before and after the islanding effect of the inverter occurs in order to reduce an islanding detection dead zone and improve islanding detection reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhangping Shao, Kai Xin, Congyuan Wang
  • Publication number: 20190280484
    Abstract: An inverter anti-islanding control system includes a phase-shift loop (10) and a drive circuit (20). The phase-shift loop (10) includes a first input end (11), a second input end (12), a third input end (13), a fourth input end (14), a first output end (15), and a second output end (16). The drive circuit (20) includes a first input end (21), a second input end (22), a third input end (23), and an output end (24). The first output end (15) of the phase-shift loop (10) is connected to the first input end (21) of the drive circuit (20), and the second output end (16) of the phase-shift loop (10) is connected to the second input end (22) of the drive circuit (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Zhangping SHAO, Kai XIN, Haibin GUO
  • Publication number: 20190280609
    Abstract: A pulse width modulation method, a pulse width modulation system, and a controller are provided, which change a change rate of a common-mode component of a three-phase converter upon a change of a converter modulation degree, thereby improving stability and harmonic characteristics of the three-phase converter and implementing flexible adaptive adjustment. An example pulse width modulation method includes: obtaining initial three-phase modulation waves and a converter modulation degree; calculating a common-mode-component change-rate adjustment coefficient based on preset modulation parameters and the converter modulation degree; selecting a modulation wave having a minimum absolute value from the modulation wave set as a common-mode modulation wave; and performing waveform superposition on the initial three-phase modulation waves and the common-mode modulation wave to obtain output three-phase modulation waves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Fangcheng LIU, Kai XIN, Haibin GUO
  • Publication number: 20190229646
    Abstract: A three-phase converter configured to be coupled between a direct current system and an alternating current system to perform interconversion between a direct current and an alternating current, where the three-phase converter includes a switching network, a three-phase filter coupled to the switching network, a sampling circuit coupled to the three-phase filter, a control circuit coupled to the three-phase sampling circuit, an active damping circuit coupled to the control circuit and the sampling circuit, and a modulation circuit coupled between the active damping circuit and the switching network, where the sampling circuit is configured to obtain three-phase currents in the three-phase filter, and send the three-phase currents to the active damping circuit, the active damping circuit is configured to obtain new three-phase modulated waves according to the three-phase currents, and transmit the new three-phase modulated waves to the modulation circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Fangcheng Liu, Kai Xin, Haibin Guo
  • Patent number: 10345362
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of inverters, and to a method for detecting grid connection stability of an inverter and an inverter. The method includes: detecting a line voltage and a current of the alternating current port to obtain a first group of line voltage values and a first group of current values; detecting the line voltage and the current of the alternating current port to obtain a second group of line voltage values and a second group of current values; obtaining an equivalent impedance matrix of the power grid according to the first group of line voltage values, the first group of current values, the second group of line voltage values, and the second group of current values; and determining, by the inverter according to an equivalent admittance matrix and the equivalent impedance matrix, whether a stability requirement of the inverter is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fangcheng Liu, Kai Xin
  • Publication number: 20190199235
    Abstract: A single-phase converter control method and apparatus, includes calculating on a voltage corresponding to a first level output by a single-phase converter, a voltage corresponding to a second level output by the single-phase converter, and a voltage reference value about the voltage corresponding to the first level and the voltage corresponding to the second level to obtain a common-mode modulated-wave change rate of the single-phase converter, where the first level is a direct-current-side positive-bus level, and the second level is a direct-current-side negative-bus level, calculating on a first-phase initial modulated wave of the single-phase converter, a second-phase initial modulated wave of the single-phase converter, and the common-mode modulated-wave change rate to obtain a common-mode modulated wave of the single-phase converter, and calculating on the first-phase initial modulated wave, the second-phase initial modulated wave, and the common-mode modulated wave to obtain a pulse width modulated wave
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Fangcheng Liu, Kai Xin, Yunfeng Liu