Current Waveform Improvement of PWM Inverter

PWM 인버터의 전류파형 개선에 관한 연구

To prevent the shoot-through phenomena in a PWM inverter, a short dead time is usually provided between a pair of switching transistors in the same leg of the inverter. In this approach, the amount of the dead time is designed to meet the worst case condition of the inverter transistors and the base drive elements. So, in normal cases, relatively large portion of the dead time is unnecessary and it results in an undesirablecurrent waveform distortion and generates ripple torque on the motor shaft. In this paper, a new base drive method to remove the undesirable portion of the dead time is described. The method senses the transistor on/off states to interlock the other transistor of the leg without the external dead time. Also, for the transistors of large current rating, the Darlington drive circuit is combined to the proposed method and is tested to verify the effectiveness. The experimental results of the proposed method are described and compared with those of the conventional dead time method.