Invention Grant
- Patent Title: High frequency inverter/distributed gap inductor—capacitor filter apparatus and method of use thereof
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Application No.: US14987675Application Date: 2016-01-04
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Publication No.: US10594206B2Publication Date: 2020-03-17
- Inventor: Hans Wennerstrom , Grant A. MacLennan , Edward Handy
- Applicant: Hans Wennerstrom , Grant A. MacLennan , Edward Handy
- Agent Kevin Hazen
- Main IPC: H02M1/12
- IPC: H02M1/12 ; H02P6/14 ; H01F27/26 ; H01F27/30 ; H01F27/28 ; H01F27/255 ; H01F27/08 ; H01F37/00 ; H01G4/40 ; H01F1/24 ; H01G4/38

Abstract:
The invention comprises an inverter/converter yielding high frequency harmonics and/or non-sixty Hertz output coupled to a high frequency inductor-capacitor filter apparatus. For example, an inverter/converter apparatus is provided that uses a silicon carbide transistor to output power having a carrier frequency modulated by a fundamental frequency and a set of harmonic frequencies, where the minimum carrier frequency is above that usable by an iron-steel inductor, such as greater than ten kiloHertz at fifty or more amperes. An inductor-capacitor filter, comprising an inductor having a distributed gap core material, receives power output from the inverter/converter and processes the power by passing the fundamental frequency while reducing amplitude of the harmonic frequencies.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160204689A1 HIGH FREQUENCY INVERTER/DISTRIBUTED GAP INDUCTOR-CAPACITOR FILTER APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF Public/Granted day:2016-07-14
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