High frequency interleaved DC-to-AC power converter apparatus
US5408404A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 25, 1993 |
| Grant date | Apr 18, 1995 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 25, 2013 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH02M7/493
- WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An apparatus and method for accomplishing DC-to-AC power conversion that combine the AC outputs of n interleaved, time division multiplexed inverters and steer the secondary pulses positively or negatively, as commanded by the time varying reference signal, such that the effective switching, or sampled-data, frequency of any of the inverter or pulse-steering transistors. The n interleaved inverter system can, in turn, be paralleled such that, relative to a single inverter supplying all the power, the losses for any inverter transistor are 1/np, n due to time multiplexing and p due to paralleling.
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