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Simplified quasi-harmonic neutralized high power inverters

US4870557A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 23, 1988
Grant dateSep 26, 1989
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Expiry dateSep 23, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH02M7/49
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A quasi-harmonic neutralized static power converter comprises one or more threephase phase shifting transformers having open primary windings fed at opposite ends by poles in separate ones of an associated pair of six-pulse bridge inverter circuits. The secondary winding of at least one of the phase shifting transformers is a delta winding or a wye winding connected to a neutral line. In order to block zero sequence currents which would be induced in such secondaries, a zero sequence blocking transformer is inserted in either the primary of secondary of any one of the phase shifting transformers. Preferably, the zero sequence blocking transformer has three identical zero sequence blocking windings wound on a common core. Each of the zero sequence windings is connected in series with a separate one of the windings in the selected transformer primary or secondary. In the case of a wye secondary connected to a neutral line, a single zero sequence winding in the neutral line can block the zero sequence current in all three phases.

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