Disclosed is a high-voltage battery converter including a first-order DC-DC converter electrically connected to a high-voltage battery for boosting a high DC voltage outputted by the high-voltage battery to an intermediate voltage having a predetermined voltage level when the high DC voltage is dropped, and a second-order DC-DC converter electrically connected to the first-order DC-DC converter for converting the intermediate voltage into a low DC voltage for driving at least one load in an electric vehicle.
Method For Determining Power Semiconductor Temperature
Charles Lizhi Zhu - Canton MI, US Ajay V. Patwardhan - Canton MI, US Fred Flett - Indio CA, US Matthew R. Obrigkeit - Northville MI, US
Assignee:
CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS US, INC. - Deer Park IL
International Classification:
G01K 7/01
US Classification:
374178, 374E07035
Abstract:
A method for determining power semiconductor operating temperatures uses a database of measured temperatures. Each temperature is associated with operating conditions and determined by laboratory testing in an environment indicative of operation of the power semiconductors actual operations.