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Operating a power electronic circuit arrangement having multiple power converters

US6009002A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 4, 1998
Grant dateDec 28, 1999
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Expiry dateMay 4, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH02M1/0095
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for operating a power electronic circuit having a first power convertor and at least one second power convertor is specified. The pulse duration-modulated driving of the switches of the circuit arrangement is effected according to a comparison of a reference oscillation with a carrier oscillation. According to the invention, a component of a third harmonic is admixed with the reference oscillation over virtually the entire drive-level range, in particular including low drive-level rates in the range from 20% to approximately 87%. It is also possible to admix a corresponding component of a ninth harmonic in the drive-level range from 20% to approximately 33%. This results in a low clock frequency for the first power convertor and the second power convertor need not have a feedback capability. (FIG. 1)

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