Electric power conversion systems – Current conversion – Including d.c.-a.c.-d.c. converter
Patent
1997-05-23
1998-09-08
Wong, Peter S.
Electric power conversion systems
Current conversion
Including d.c.-a.c.-d.c. converter
363 21, 363 41, H02M 3336, H02M 112
Patent
active
058054340
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus (and a method) useful in a switching power converter having a transformer and a primary switch for connecting a DC input source to a primary winding of the transformer during a portion of each of a succession of converter operating cycles, the apparatus includes a reset capacitor and a reset switch. Reset circuitry cooperates with the reset switch to connect and disconnect the reset capacitor in a manner which provides for resetting the transformer and which allows a current having a non-zero average value to flow in the reset switch.
Another aspect is a method for limiting the slew rate in a switching power converter which includes a transformer and a reset circuit of the kind which non-dissipatively recycles the magnetizing energy stored in a transformer during each of a succession of converter operating cycles. The method includes sensing the magnetizing current which is flowing in said transformer, and allowing initiation of another converter operating cycle only if the magnetizing current meets a predefined criterion for safe converter operation. In embodiments of the invention the predefined criterion may be the magnetizing current passing through a predefined value, e.g., zero.
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Prager Jay
Vinciarelli Patrizio
VLT Corporation
Vu Bao Q.
Wong Peter S.
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