Electricity: power supply or regulation systems – Output level responsive – Phase controlled switching using electronic tube or a three...
Patent
1989-10-10
1991-07-16
Stephan, Steven L.
Electricity: power supply or regulation systems
Output level responsive
Phase controlled switching using electronic tube or a three...
323324, 315174, H05B 3700
Patent
active
050327828
ABSTRACT:
A full-bridge transistor inverter is connected at its DC supply-side with an energy-storing capacitor. The inverter's output terminals are connected in series between a source of AC voltage and a load; which load may be an electric motor, a fluorescent lighting system, etc. By controllably switching the transistors of the inverter ON and OFF at some rate higher than, but basically synchronous with, the frequency of the AC voltage, effective control of the flow of power between the AC source and the load is achieved. DC voltage on the energy-storing capacitor is obtained from the AC source and established by way of the timing of the switching action of the inverter.
Hence, in contrast with the ordinary situation where an inverter is supplied with net power from its source of DC voltage and where this net power is then supplied to a load connected with the inverter's output, the present invention relates to a situation where generally no net power is supplied to the inverter from its source of DC voltage and where generally no net power is supplied from the inverter's output. Instead, the inverter is used for controlling the waveform, magnitude and phasing of the alternating current flowing through it by way of its output terminals.
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Stephan Steven L.
Sterrett Jeffrey
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