Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Balancing currents of power semiconductors
- Patent Title (中): 平衡功率半导体的电流
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Application No.: US14564766Application Date: 2014-12-09
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Publication No.: US09503077B2Publication Date: 2016-11-22
- Inventor: Mika Niemi
- Applicant: ABB OY
- Applicant Address: FI Helsinki
- Assignee: ABB Technology Oy
- Current Assignee: ABB Technology Oy
- Current Assignee Address: FI Helsinki
- Agency: Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
- Priority: EP13198826 20131220
- Main IPC: H03K17/06
- IPC: H03K17/06 ; H03K17/66 ; H03K17/082 ; H03K17/12

Abstract:
An exemplary method and arrangement for balancing currents of power semiconductors. The arrangement including multiple power semiconductor units and a central control unit. Each power semiconductor unit includes a power semiconductor and the central control unit and the power semiconductor units are arranged in a bi-directional ring, in which the central control unit sends control information for the power semiconductor units in both directions in the bi-directional ring and each power semiconductor unit receives the control information in both directions and forwards the received control information. Each power semiconductor unit configured to receive the control information from the first direction at a first time instant, receive the control information from the second direction at a second time instant, calculate a midpoint between the first and the second time instants, and control the power semiconductor component according to the control information after a time delay after the calculated midpoint has elapsed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150180468A1 BALANCING CURRENTS OF POWER SEMICONDUCTORS Public/Granted day:2015-06-25
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