EP3170363B1 - System and method for improving noise performance of multi-zone quasi-resonant inverter induction heater - Google Patents

System and method for improving noise performance of multi-zone quasi-resonant inverter induction heater Download PDF

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Publication number: EP3170363B1
Authority: EP; European Patent Office
Prior art keywords: resonant; master; cooking zone; induction heating; heating cooker
Prior art date: 2014-07-15
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Metin ASTOPRAK

Metin ÖZTÜRK

Namik Yilmaz

Hakan Suleyman YARDIBI

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- H05B6/00—Heating by electric, magnetic or electromagnetic fields
- H05B6/02—Induction heating
- H05B6/06—Control, e.g. of temperature, of power
- H05B6/062—Control, e.g. of temperature, of power for cooking plates or the like
- H05B6/065—Control, e.g. of temperature, of power for cooking plates or the like using coordinated control of multiple induction coils
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- H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
- H05B2213/00—Aspects relating both to resistive heating and to induction heating, covered by H05B3/00 and H05B6/00
- H05B2213/03—Heating plates made out of a matrix of heating elements that can define heating areas adapted to cookware randomly placed on the heating plate
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- H05B2213/05—Heating plates with pan detection means

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the present invention relates to a system and method for operating a multiple-zone induction heating cooker by which audible noise caused by different operating frequencies is overcome while still applying individual cooking zone power control.
the induction heating cooker operates based on the process of heating a ferromagnetic material by electromagnetic induction where eddy currents are to be induced and resistance provides heat dissipation within said ferromagnetic material, i.e. a cooking vessel in the form of a pot or pan.
induction heating By induction heating, high-frequency alternating current is passed through a coil upon which a magnetic field of the same frequency is induced.
the internal resistance of the pan causes heat dissipation due to Joule effect and energy transfer is interrupted once the pan is removed from the cooktop.
the energy efficiency of induction heating cookers is considerably high since there is no transfer of heat energy between the hob and the cookware and heat energy lost in the air is minimal.
a resonant converter in an induction heater circuit topology typically consists of a capacitor, an inductor and resistance. To this end, when power is supplied to the resonant tank, electric energy is stored in the inductor and transferred to the capacitor. Resonance therefore occurs while the inductor and the capacitor involve in energy exchange.
the resonant converter can be a half-bridge series resonant converter or a quasi-resonant converter.
a quasi-resonant converter exhibits certain advantages over a half-bridge series resonant converter especially due to its simpler circuit design having only one power switching device compared to the half-bridge series resonant converter whose overall operation is more complex.
the circuit design parameters in a quasi-resonant converter are regarded as a serious cost advantage in this regard.
a high-frequency power switch such as an IGBT is accordingly used.
a prior art publication in the technical field of the invention may be referred to as US2010/243642 .
EP 1 629 698 B1 discloses an induction cooking system including a power inverter, a microprocessor, a protection circuit and a pan detection circuit.
variable operating frequency according to a certain load i.e. a magnetically responsive cooking pan
a pan interference noise is generated due to frequency differences among the burners.
the present invention provides a system and method for operating an induction heating cooker by which a plurality of induction resonant inverters are supplied from the same DC bus in an efficient manner and audible noise caused by different operating frequencies is overcome while still applying individual cooking zone power control.
the present invention provides a system and method for operating an induction heating cooker by which individual cooking zone power control is applicable at a master driving frequency for all of the resonant inductors as provided by the characterizing features defined in Claim 1.
Primary object of the present invention is to provide a system and method for operating an induction heating cooker by which individual power control of different cooking zones can be made at a master driving frequency.
the present invention proposes an induction heating cooker capable of sensing presence and correct placement of a ferromagnetic cooking container in an induction heating cooker. It has a bridge rectifier, a DC-line inductance and a DC-line capacitor. It further has a plurality of quasi-resonant converters having a common DC supply in connection with said bridge rectifier and having a resonant inductor and a resonant capacitor disposed in parallel so as to be powered by a high-frequency switching device such as an IGBT. The latter is in parallel with a diode as an anti-parallel diode.
the induction heating cooker comprises a control circuitry effecting detection of presence of at least one cooking pan and determination of a master resonant inductor in a master cooking zone.
the master cooking zone is determined such that resonant inductors in the master cooking zone with the power switching devices having the maximum conduction time are determined.
nominal conduction time of the master cooking zone is calculated in proportion to the adjusted power setting of said master cooking zone.
a common switching frequency is accordingly determined so as to be applicable to all of the other resonant inductors of the induction heating cooker.
nominal conduction times for resonant inductors in different cooking zones are calculated based on different power settings as adjusted by the user.
the resulting nominal conduction times are only used for determining a specific duty cycle for each cooking zone.
the calculation is performed such that the resulting nominal conduction times constitute the numerator of the ratio determining the duty cycle of a respective power switching device where the denominator is a predetermined value.
the present invention proposes an induction heating cooker (1) having a plurality of induction coils in the form of multi-zone induction coils.
a power sub-circuit in relation with each induction coil provides that heat energy is induced within a magnetically responsive cooking container or pan placed above the induction coils of the induction heating cooker (1).
the induction heating cooker (1) comprises a plurality of induction resonant inverters (2) supplied with a source of AC voltage.
a full-wave bridge rectifier (8) is connected between the AC source and power stage of a resonant inductor (6).
the resonant inductor (6) is connected between the output of said rectifier (8) and a power switching device (5).
the resonant capacitor (7) is parallel to the resonant inductor (6) and an anti-parallel diode, i.e. a freewheeling diode (9) is connected parallel to said power switching device (5).
the induction heating cooker (1) conventionally comprises an AC signal filtering circuit. Power passing through a leveling capacitor (4) serves to the purpose of filtering high frequency current. The voltage of the leveling capacitor (4) is converted into a square wave by the high-frequency power switching device (5). According to Ampere's Law, the square wave provides resonance creating a magnetic field around the resonant inductor (6), that is, the induction coil. The resonant capacitor (7) provided in parallel with the resonant inductor (6) therefore compensates the inductive nature of the latter.
the quasi-resonant converter's power switching device (5) is an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT).
IGBT insulated gate bipolar transistor
the operating principle of the quasi-resonant converter typically relies on the storage of energy in the resonant inductor (6) when the power switching device (5) is turned on, and transfer of energy from the resonant inductor (6) to a cooking container when the power switching device (5) is turned off. More particularly, when the power switching device (5) is turned off, the resonant voltage increases on the collector node (11) as the resonant capacitor (7) is being discharged. When the resonant voltage is equal to the input voltage at the input node (10), the energy stored in the resonant inductor (6) begins to be transferred to the resonant capacitor (7).
the resonant current gradually decreases to zero when the resonant voltage reaches its maximum, meaning that energy transfer from the resonant inductor (6) to the resonant capacitor (7) is terminated. Thereupon, the resonant capacitor (7) starts discharging the energy to the resonant inductor (6).
the current completes its cycle by passing through the freewheeling diode (9) connected in parallel to the IGBT.
the present invention provides a plurality of distinct induction coils (resonant inductors (6)) driven by respective induction resonant inverters (2) such that a plurality of flexible cooking zones are created, whereby cooking containers having different sizes can be heated by induction heating.
a plurality of induction resonant inverters (2) in the form of single-switch quasi-resonant converters are supplied from the same DC bus, which can cause audible noise in the event that different power switching devices (5) are driven in different operating frequencies.
the present invention provides a method of operation overcoming audible noise problems as delineated hereinafter.
a control circuitry (12) monitors and controls the operation of the induction heating cooker (1) by means of a pan detection circuit sensing cookware positioning.
Pan detection techniques in induction heating cookers (1) are extensively used in the state of the art and are known to the skilled worker.
Such a pan detection circuit can monitor the resonant current or the IGBT voltage.
the microcontroller of the control circuitry (12) can monitor voltages at the collector nodes (11) together with voltages at the input nodes (10) and a power switch driving circuit drives the respective power switching devices (5) depending on the associated power setting as defined by the user.
each resonant inductor (6) is energized by a respective quasi-resonant inverter (2) powered from the same DC bus.
all of the separate resonant inductors (6) should either be powered at different time intervals or they must be operated at the same switching frequency.
the present invention proposes a system and method by which all of the quasi-resonant inverters (2) are operated at a common or master switching frequency. To this end, after each resonant coil (6) forming part of a certain cooking zone is determined, these resonant inductors (6) are energized according to predetermined current references and the maximum conduction time of each power switching device (IGBT (5)) in association with respective resonant coils (6) corresponding to a maximum predetermined current reference is determined.
the resonant coil (6) in association with a power switching device (5) having the maximum conduction time at boost power level is determined as the master coil while the cooking zone containing the master coil becomes the master cooking zone.
the power level setting of the master cooking zone as defined by the user is used to calculate the nominal conduction time of the master coil. For instance, if the maximum conduction time for the power switching device (5) of the master coil is determined as 18 ⁇ s and the power level setting of the associated cooking zone is 9 out of maximum 10, the actual or nominal conduction time for the master cooking zone will be 18*(9/10), which approximately equals 16 ⁇ s. Therefore, all the power switching devices (5) associated with the resonant coils (6) in all other cooking zones will be driven at a switching frequency in correspondence with a nominal conduction time of 16 ⁇ s.
the switching frequency of the master coil and master cooking zone is used as the common or master frequency.
the calculated nominal or actual on times for the power switching devices (5) of different resonant coils (6) is used in order for determining a specific duty cycle for each cooking zone in the following manner:
the duty cycle of the power switching device (5) whose maximum conduction time is 15 ⁇ s and the nominal conduction time is calculated as 11 ⁇ s will have a duty cycle of 11/13, that is around 85% in a period T.
the duty cycle will be 9/13 while the driving frequency is still the same with frequency of the master cooking zone having the master coil.
the duty cycle is calculated as a number greater than 1, the respective power switching device (5) will be operational during the entire time period T.
the present invention therefore provides that each and every resonant coil (6) in a flexible configuration cooking surface is energized with a common driving frequency determined by the power switching device (5) of the master coil in the master cooking zone, the power switching device (5) having the maximum conduction time.
the present invention proposes an induction heating cooker (1) comprising a plurality of resonant inductors (6) in association with induction resonant inverters (2) supplied by a common DC bus in the manner that a multi-zone induction coil system is provided, a power switch driving circuit driving power switching devices (5) associated with the induction resonant inverters (2) and a pan detection circuit for detecting presence of a pan.
a control circuitry (12) effects: a) detection of presence of at least two cooking pans, b) determination of a master resonant inductor (6) forming part of a master cooking zone by way of energizing all resonant coils (6) according to predetermined current references such that the maximum conduction time of each power switching device (5) in association with respective resonant coils (6) corresponding to a maximum predetermined current reference is determined, c) determination of nominal conduction time of the master cooking zone in reference to a power level setting adjusted for said master cooking zone and, d) determination of a common switching frequency in correspondence with the nominal conduction time of the master cooking zone to be applicable to all resonant inductors (6) of the induction heating cooker (1).
the nominal conduction time of the master cooking zone is calculated in direct proportion to a power level setting adjusted for the master cooking zone.
control circuitry (12) further effects calculation of nominal on times for power switching devices (5) associated with resonant inductors (6) in different cooking zones other than the master cooking zone based on different power settings as adjusted.
calculated nominal on times for the power switching devices (5) of different resonant coils (6) than the resonant coils (6) of the master cooking zone is used in order for determining a specific duty cycle for each cooking zone.
calculated nominal on time of a power switching device (5) of different resonant coils (6) than the resonant coils (6) of the master cooking zone is used as the numerator of a ratio determining the duty cycle of a respective power switching device (5) associated with said different resonant coils.
the denominator of the ratio determining the duty cycle of the respective power switching device (5) associated with said different resonant coils is a predetermined common value.
the denominator of the ratio determining the duty cycle is set as the lowest determined maximum conduction time of a given resonant inductor (6).
a respective power switching device (5) in the case the duty cycle is calculated as a number greater than 1, a respective power switching device (5) will be operational during the entire time period T.
a method for operating an induction heating cooker (1) comprising a plurality of resonant inductors (6) in association with induction resonant inverters (2) supplied by a common DC bus in the manner that a multi-zone induction coil system is provided, a power switch driving circuit driving power switching devices (5) associated with the induction resonant inverters (2) and a pan detection circuit for detecting presence of a pan, said method comprising the steps of, a) detecting presence of at least two cooking pans, b) determining a master resonant inductor (6) forming part of a master cooking zone by way of energizing all resonant coils (6) according to predetermined current references such that the maximum conduction time of each power switching device (5) in association with respective resonant coils (6) corresponding to a maximum predetermined current reference is determined, c) determining nominal conduction time of the master cooking zone in reference to a power level
the efficient and advantageous method of the invention provides that an induction heating cooker (1) having induction resonant inverters (2) supplied from the same DC bus is operable by applying individual cooking zone power control such that individual cooking zones are powered at a master driving frequency, whereby audible noise caused by different operating frequencies is overcome.

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