Patents by Inventor LI-CHIUN LIN

LI-CHIUN LIN 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: 9680397
    Abstract: A three-phase inverting apparatus and a control method and a paralleled power conversion system thereof are provided. The control method is suitable for controlling a three-phase inverter having a plurality of switch sets, a first inductor, a second inductor, and a third inductor. The control method includes following steps: obtaining a DC bus voltage, a plurality of phase voltages, and a plurality of phase currents; obtaining inductances of the first, the second, and the third inductors; calculating a plurality of switch duty ratios by a division-summation control means according to the DC bus voltage, the phase voltages, current variations of the phase currents, the inductances, and a switching cycle based on a sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM); and generating corresponding control signals based on the switch duty ratios so as to control a switching of the switch sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: Tsai-Fu Wu, Chih-Hao Chang, Ying-Yi Jhang, Li-Chiun Lin
  • Publication number: 20170104423
    Abstract: A three-phase inverting apparatus and a control method and a paralleled power conversion system thereof are provided. The control method is suitable for controlling a three-phase inverter having a plurality of switch sets, a first inductor, a second inductor, and a third inductor. The control method includes following steps: obtaining a DC bus voltage, a plurality of phase voltages, and a plurality of phase currents; obtaining inductances of the first, the second, and the third inductors; calculating a plurality of switch duty ratios by a division-summation control means according to the DC bus voltage, the phase voltages, current variations of the phase currents, the inductances, and a switching cycle based on a sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM); and generating corresponding control signals based on the switch duty ratios so as to control a switching of the switch sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Tsai-Fu Wu, Chih-Hao Chang, Ying-Yi Jhang, Li-Chiun Lin
  • Patent number: 9341660
    Abstract: The present invention provides a load impedance estimation and repetitive control method capable of allowing inductance variation for an inverter, wherein the method is applied for predicting corresponding next-period switching duty cycles for four switching member sets of the inverter by way of sampling three phase voltages and calculating next-period voltage compensations based on the previous line-period voltage compensations. Moreover, during the calculation and prediction, the method also involves the inductance variations of the output inductors of the inverter into the load impedance estimation matrix equation. Therefore, the three phases four wires inverter with the presented load impedance estimation and repetitive control method can provide a steady output voltage to the loads even if the originally-connected loads are replaced with other different loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: Tsai-Fu Wu, Li-Chiun Lin, Chih-Hao Chang, Po-Hung Li
  • Publication number: 20160065089
    Abstract: A three-phase current converter and a three-phase D-? control method with varied inductances are provided. In this method, two current variations of a first phase current, a second phase current and a third phase current flowing through a first inductor, a second inductor and a third inductor of the three-phase current converter respectively and two phase voltages of a first phase voltage, a second phase voltage and a third phase voltage are obtained. A first calculation is executed according to inductances of the inductors, the current variations and a switching period of a vector space modulation to obtain a calculation result. A second calculation is executed according to the phase voltages and the calculation result to obtain a duty ratio of the switching period of switch sets of the three-phase current converter. The inductances vary with the phase currents respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Tsai-Fu Wu, Chih-Hao Chang, Li-Chiun Lin, Yung-Ruei Chang
  • Publication number: 20150311818
    Abstract: The present invention provides a load impedance estimation and repetitive control method capable of allowing inductance variation for an inverter, wherein the method is applied for predicting corresponding next-period switching duty cycles for four switching member sets of the inverter by way of sampling three phase voltages and calculating next-period voltage compensations based on the previous line-period voltage compensations. Moreover, during the calculation and prediction, the method also involves the inductance variations of the output inductors of the inverter into the load impedance estimation matrix equation. Therefore, the three phases four wires inverter with the presented load impedance estimation and repetitive control method can provide a steady output voltage to the loads even if the originally-connected loads are replaced with other different loads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Tsai-Fu Wu, Li-Chiun Lin, Chih-Hao Chang, Po-Hung Li
  • Patent number: 8564995
    Abstract: A method is for controlling a three-phase current converter. First, subtract a second reference current signal representing the predicted current of the three-phase terminals in the present switching cycle from a first reference current signal representing the predicted current of the three-phase terminals in the next switching cycle to obtain a predicted variation. Then, subtract a feedback current signal representing the feedback current of the three-phase terminals in the previous switching cycle from the second reference current signal delayed by one switching cycle to obtain a current error. Multiply the current error by an error coefficient then add the predicted variation to obtain a current variation. Finally, obtain duty ratios of a plurality of switches, according to the current variation and inductance of the first to the third inductor. The three-phase current converter converts electric power between a DC terminal and the three-phase terminals, according to the duty ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: National Chung Cheng University
    Inventors: Tsai-Fu Wu, Chih-Hao Chang, Li-Chiun Lin, Yu-Kai Chen
  • Publication number: 20120224403
    Abstract: A method is for controlling a three-phase current converter. First, subtract a second reference current signal representing the predicted current of the three-phase terminals in the present switching cycle from a first reference current signal representing the predicted current of the three-phase terminals in the next switching cycle to obtain a predicted variation. Then, subtract a feedback current signal representing the feedback current of the three-phase terminals in the previous switching cycle from the second reference current signal delayed by one switching cycle to obtain a current error. Multiply the current error by an error coefficient then add the predicted variation to obtain a current variation. Finally, obtain duty ratios of a plurality of switches, according to the current variation and inductance of the first to the third inductor. The three-phase current converter converts electric power between a DC terminal and the three-phase terminals, according to the duty ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: TSAI-FU WU, CHIH-HAO CHANG, LI-CHIUN LIN, YU-KAI CHEN