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AC-DC converter, method of controlling the same, motor driver, compressor driver, air-conditioner, and heat pump type water heater

TLDR
In this article, a rectifier connected with an AC source through a reactor, a plurality of capacitors connected in series between output terminals of the rectifier, first switching means connected between one input terminal of the Rectifier and a connection point of the plurality of the capacitors in inverse-parallel, and a plurality diodes connected with the plurality in inverse parallel are provided.
Abstract
A rectifier connected with an AC source through a reactor, a plurality of capacitors connected in series between output terminals of the rectifier, first switching means connected between one input terminal of the rectifier and a connection point of a plurality of capacitors, second switching means connected between the other input terminal of the rectifier and the connection point of a plurality of capacitors, and a plurality of diodes connected with the plurality of capacitors in inverse-parallel are provided.

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TL;DR: In this article, an inverter control apparatus and a control method for a three-phase motor using a capacitor having a small capacitance for a DC link is presented. But the controller is not specified.
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TL;DR: In this article, an instantaneous voltage drop or an instantaneous power failure occurs in an AC power source while the power factor corrector is performing a power factor correction operation by boosting an input voltage.
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Switching power supply circuit

TL;DR: In this article, a master transistor and a slave transistor are connected in anti-parallel to the slave transistor, and the master transistor is brought into conduction if a current flowing in a master reactor becomes zero, and is brought to non-conduction after elapse of a first period.
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Electric power converter

TL;DR: In this article, the first and second series circuits of switching devices and a series circuit of capacitors are connected in parallel, where the connection point in the first series circuit is connected through a reactor to an input-output common connection line connected to one end of an AC power supply.
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System and method for detecting phase loss and diagnosing dc link capacitor health in an adjustable speed drive

Kevin Lee
TL;DR: In this paper, a system and method for detecting input phase loss in an adjustable speed drive (ASD) includes an input unit to detect operating data from the ASD, which includes a DC link current of the ASD.
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Power supply device and air conditioner using the same

TL;DR: In this paper, a power supply device capable of widening a conduction period of an input current by simple control to improve a power factor, and reducing a harmonic distortion of the input current, is presented.
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Converter circuit and motor driving apparatus

TL;DR: In this article, a converter circuit for converting an output voltage from an AC power supply includes a rectifier circuit for rectifying the output voltage of the AC Power Supply; first and second capacitors connected in series, for smoothing the output of the rectifier circuits; and a switch circuit for switching the connections between the respective capacitors and the ACPower Supply so that the output voltages of each of the corresponding capacitors at a cycle that is shorter than the cycle of the power supply.
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Motor control apparatus

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a motor control apparatus which receives an input voltage to an inverter circuit, a motor current flowing to a brushless motor and a motor command value indicating the value of a current required to flow to the inverter.
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A new control scheme for single-phase PWM multilevel rectifier with power-factor correction

TL;DR: A new control scheme for a single-phase bridge rectifier with three-level pulsewidth modulation is proposed to achieve high power factor and low current distortion.
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Motor drive device and drive method

TL;DR: In this paper, a reverse current detection unit detects the direction of the motor current during the synchronous rectifier period based on the polarity of the on voltage of a switching device contained in the motor path, and outputs a reversecurrent detection signal representing the result of this detection to the PWM control unit.