Electric power conversion systems – Current conversion – Including automatic or integral protection means
Patent
1985-02-26
1986-12-30
Wong, Peter S.
Electric power conversion systems
Current conversion
Including automatic or integral protection means
363 98, 363132, H02H 7122
Patent
active
046333819
ABSTRACT:
Prior circuits for protecting inverter switches from the possibility of overlapping operation which may cause shoot-through have required complex and expensive delay circuits to provide a fixed delay between turn-off of one switch and turn-on of the complementary switch. In order to overcome the problem of complexity and expense, a protection circuit according to the present invention includes a drive signal source for developing complementary first and second drive signals and first and second drive logic circuits coupled to the drive signal source for controlling first and second switching devices, respectively, in response to the drive signals so that overlapping operation is prevented. Each of the drive logic circuit includes an inhibit logic circuit having first and second inputs which receive the drive signal and an inhibit signal developed by the other drive logic circuit, respectively. The inhibit logic circuit generates a control signal to turn on the respective switching device only when the drive signal is present and the inhibit signal from the other drive logic circuit is not present. Circuits are included for generating the inhibit signal that is coupled to the inhibit logic of the other drive logic circuit, such inhibit signal being generated during the time that the control signal is generated and for a predetermined time period thereafter so that the complementary switch is maintained in an off state until the predetermiend time period has elapsed.
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Sundstrand Corporation
Todd Voeltz Emanuel
Wong Peter S.
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