Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Balancing current within a modular converter system
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Application No.: US15055828Application Date: 2016-02-29
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Publication No.: US09991778B2Publication Date: 2018-06-05
- Inventor: Matthew J. Krolak , Shengyi Liu
- Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
- Current Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Agency: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP
- Main IPC: H02M1/088
- IPC: H02M1/088 ; H02J1/14 ; H02M7/493 ; H02M7/537

Abstract:
To provide current balancing between paralleled first and second inverter units of a modular converter system, a system controller is configured to determine a gate driver offset value based on respective voltages at the phase output nodes of the first and second inverter units. The system controller controls gate drivers for the first and second inverter units based on the determined gate driver offset value. In turn, the gate drivers drive the first and second inverter units with subsequent drive signals such that the amounts of current provided by the first and second inverter units when producing an in-phase power output are balanced.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170250622A1 BALANCING CURRENT WITHIN A MODULAR CONVERTER SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2017-08-31
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