Patents by Inventor TIANGUI JIANG

TIANGUI JIANG 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: 11264891
    Abstract: A redundant energy acquisition circuit of a power module includes at least one power semiconductor device, a first capacitor, and a first bypass switch. The redundant energy acquisition circuit of the power module includes: a power supply board acquiring energy from the first capacitor, supplying power to a control board, and charging a discharge circuit. A first charging circuit has one end connected to a positive electrode of the first capacitor and another end connected to the discharge circuit, and charges the discharge circuit when the power supply board is not operating normally. The control board controls the discharge circuit to close. The discharge circuit discharges and triggers the first bypass switch to close after the discharge circuit is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yeyuan Xie, Haiying Li, Tiangui Jiang, Minglian Zhu, Dongming Cao, Zhongfeng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210036600
    Abstract: A redundant energy acquisition circuit of a power module includes at least one power semiconductor device, a first capacitor, and a first bypass switch. The redundant energy acquisition circuit of the power module includes: a power supply board acquiring energy from the first capacitor, supplying power to a control board, and charging a discharge circuit. A first charging circuit has one end connected to a positive electrode of the first capacitor and another end connected to the discharge circuit, and charges the discharge circuit when the power supply board is not operating normally. The control board controls the discharge circuit to close. The discharge circuit discharges and triggers the first bypass switch to close after the discharge circuit is closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yeyuan XIE, Haiying LI, Tiangui JIANG, Minglian ZHU, Dongming CAO, Zhongfeng ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10763761
    Abstract: A sub-module based hybrid converter is provided. By setting a half-controlled charging link of changing full bridge sub-modules from a blocked state to a half-blocked state one by one in a charging process, and raising the voltages of half bridge sub-modules to reach the starting point of a half bridge sub-module based self-powered supply in an uncontrolled stage of the half bridge sub-modules, the starting point of the sub-module based self-powered supply is increased, and the design difficulty of the sub-module based self- powered supply is reduced. The present invention also includes another charging method for a sub-module based hybrid converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignees: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD., NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jiudong Ding, Yu Lu, Yunlong Dong, Haiying Li, Jie Tian, Defeng Qiu, Tiangui Jiang, Jianyang Lian
  • Publication number: 20200076321
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a charging method for a sub-module based hybrid converter. By setting a half-controlled charging link of changing full bridge sub-modules from a blocked state to a half-blocked state one by one in a charging process, and raising the voltages of half bridge sub-modules to reach the starting point of a half bridge sub-module based self-powered supply in an uncontrolled stage of the half bridge sub-modules, the starting point of the sub-module based self-powered supply is increased, and the design difficulty of the sub-module based self-powered supply is reduced. The present invention also discloses another charging method for a sub-module based hybrid converter. The above objective can also be achieved by setting a half-controlled charging link of changing the full bridge sub-modules from a blocked state to a bypassed state one by one in the charging process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicants: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jiudong DING, Yu LU, Yunlong DONG, Haiying LI, Jie TIAN, Defeng QIU, Tiangui JIANG, Jianyang LIAN
  • Patent number: 10483788
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a charging method for a sub-module based hybrid converter. By setting a half-controlled charging link of half-blocking all full bridge sub-modules in a charging process, and raising the voltages of half bridge sub-modules to reach the starting point of a half bridge sub-module based self-powered supply in an uncontrolled stage of the half bridge sub-modules, the starting point of the sub-module based self-powered supply is increased, and the design difficulty of the sub-module based self-powered supply is reduced. The present invention also discloses another charging method for a sub-module based hybrid converter. The above objective can also be achieved by setting a half-controlled charging link of bypassing all full bridge sub-modules in the charging process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignees: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jiudong Ding, Yu Lu, Yunlong Dong, Haiying Li, Jie Tian, Defeng Qiu, Tiangui Jiang, Jianyang Lian
  • Patent number: 10476261
    Abstract: A method for fault positioning and recovery of a voltage source converter includes following steps. Locking a converter station when it is detected that an alternating-current voltage contains a zero sequence voltage or a direct-current voltage contains an unbalanced voltage. Positioning a fault by continuing to detect the zero sequence voltage of an alternating-current side of the converter. Recovering operation of each station after the fault is positioned. The method for fault positioning and recovery is simple, practical, has high reliability, and can effectively detect the problems that each station contains a zero sequence voltage of an alternating-current side and cannot easily position a fault caused due to transmission of the zero sequence voltage of the alternating-current side to an opposite-side alternating-current system via a voltage source converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignees: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Gang Li, Yu Lu, Zhaoqing Hu, Jie Tian, Yunlong Dong, Tiangui Jiang, Haiying Li, Yadong Feng, Ke Wang, Jiang Lu, Shunke Sui, Hui Wang, Nannan Wang
  • Publication number: 20190326770
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a charging method for a sub-module based hybrid converter. By setting a half-controlled charging link of half-blocking all full bridge sub-modules in a charging process, and raising the voltages of half bridge sub-modules to reach the starting point of a half bridge sub-module based self-powered supply in an uncontrolled stage of the half bridge sub-modules, the starting point of the sub-module based self-powered supply is increased, and the design difficulty of the sub-module based self-powered supply is reduced. The present invention also discloses another charging method for a sub-module based hybrid converter. The above objective can also be achieved by setting a half-controlled charging link of bypassing all full bridge sub-modules in the charging process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicants: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jiudong DING, Yu LU, Yunlong DONG, Haiying LI, Jie TIAN, Defeng QIU, Tiangui JIANG, Jianyang LIAN
  • Patent number: 10326275
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling a zero sequence voltage of a voltage source converter. When an alternating current system ground fault occurs, a zero sequence voltage at an alternating current (AC) side or a zero sequence voltage at a direct current (DC) side of a converter is detected. If the detected zero sequence voltage is greater than a set value V0ref, a DC side voltage of the converter can be increased to a set value Udc0, thereby generating an appropriate reference wave at the AC side of the converter to match an AC voltage, and accordingly controlling overmodulation of a reference wave at a faulty station to suppress fluctuation of a DC voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignees: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ke Wang, Gang Li, Yu Lu, Yunlong Dong, Jiang Lu, Zhaoqing Hu, Tiangui Jiang
  • Publication number: 20190140441
    Abstract: A method for fault positioning and recovery of a voltage source converter includes following steps. Locking a converter station when it is detected that an alternating-current voltage contains a zero sequence voltage or a direct-current voltage contains an unbalanced voltage. Positioning a fault by continuing to detect the zero sequence voltage of an alternating-current side of the converter. Recovering operation of each station after the fault is positioned. The method for fault positioning and recovery is simple, practical, has high reliability, and can effectively detect the problems that each station contains a zero sequence voltage of an alternating-current side and cannot easily position a fault caused due to transmission of the zero sequence voltage of the alternating-current side to an opposite-side alternating-current system via a voltage source converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicants: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Gang LI, Yu LU, Zhaoqing HU, Jie TIAN, Yunlong DONG, Tiangui JIANG, Haiying LI, Yadong FENG, Ke WANG, Jiang LU, Shunke SUI, Hui WANG, Nannan WANG
  • Publication number: 20190109459
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling a zero sequence voltage of a voltage source converter. When an alternating current system ground fault occurs, a zero sequence voltage at an alternating current (AC) side or a zero sequence voltage at a direct current (DC) side of a converter is detected. If the detected zero sequence voltage is greater than a set value V0ref, a DC side voltage of the converter can be increased to a set value Udc0, thereby generating an appropriate reference wave at the AC side of the converter to match an AC voltage, and accordingly controlling overmodulation of a reference wave at a faulty station to suppress fluctuation of a DC voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicants: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ke WANG, Gang LI, Yu LU, Yunlong DONG, Jiang LU, Zhaoqing HU, Tiangui JIANG
  • Patent number: 10224833
    Abstract: Disclosed are a modulation method of a modular multilevel converter and a fault isolation method of a submodule unit. The modulation method comprises a first mode and a second mode, and the first mode and the second mode operate cyclically. In the first mode, a first power semiconductor switch and a second power semiconductor switch are turned on alternately, while a third power semiconductor switch is turned off normally and a fourth power semiconductor switch is turned on normally. In the second mode, the third power semiconductor switch and the fourth power semiconductor switch are turned on alternately, while the first power semiconductor switch is turned on normally and the second power semiconductor switch is turned off normally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignees: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yeyuan Xie, Dongming Cao, Tiangui Jiang, Minglian Zhu, Guanxian Yin
  • Patent number: 10148083
    Abstract: Disclosed are a fault current-suppressing damper topology circuit and a control method thereof and a converter. An anode of a separate diode is connected to a positive electrode of a second switch module, a cathode of the separate diode is connected to one end of an energy storage capacitor, and the other end of the energy storage capacitor is connected to a negative electrode of a first switch module; a damping resistor is connected in parallel with an arrester and then with the first switch module; a bypass switch is connected in parallel between a terminal x1 and a terminal x2 of the damper topology circuit; a power supply system acquires energy from the energy storage capacitor and supplies power to a control system; and the control system controls an operating state of the damper topology circuit by controlling the bypass switch, the first switch module and the second switch module. The fault current-suppressing damper topology circuit is applied to voltage source converters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignees: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yeyuan Xie, Minglian Zhu, Tiangui Jiang, Chuanjun Bo, Min Li
  • Publication number: 20180226900
    Abstract: Disclosed are a modulation method of a modular multilevel converter and a fault isolation method of a submodule unit. The modulation method comprises a first mode and a second mode, and the first mode and the second mode operate cyclically. In the first mode, a first power semiconductor switch and a second power semiconductor switch are turned on alternately, while a third power semiconductor switch is turned off normally and a fourth power semiconductor switch is turned on normally. In the second mode, the third power semiconductor switch and the fourth power semiconductor switch are turned on alternately, while the first power semiconductor switch is turned on normally and the second power semiconductor switch is turned off normally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicants: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yeyuan XIE, Dongming CAO, Tiangui JIANG, Minglian ZHU, Guanxian YIN
  • Publication number: 20180183231
    Abstract: Disclosed are a fault current-suppressing damper topology circuit and a control method thereof and a converter. An anode of a separate diode is connected to a positive electrode of a second switch module, a cathode of the separate diode is connected to one end of an energy storage capacitor, and the other end of the energy storage capacitor is connected to a negative electrode of a first switch module; a damping resistor is connected in parallel with an arrester and then with the first switch module; a bypass switch is connected in parallel between a terminal x1 and a terminal x2 of the damper topology circuit; a power supply system acquires energy from the energy storage capacitor and supplies power to a control system; and the control system controls an operating state of the damper topology circuit by controlling the bypass switch, the first switch module and the second switch module. The fault current-suppressing damper topology circuit is applied to voltage source converters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicants: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: YEYUAN XIE, MINGLIAN ZHU, TIANGUI JIANG, CHUANJUN BO, MIN LI