Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for balancing currents
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Application No.: US14567461Application Date: 2014-12-11
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Publication No.: US09941873B2Publication Date: 2018-04-10
- Inventor: Ignacio Lizama , Rodrigo Alonso Alvarez Valenzuela , Steffen Bernet , Matti Laitinen
- Applicant: ABB Oy
- Applicant Address: FI Helsinki
- Assignee: ABB Oy
- Current Assignee: ABB Oy
- Current Assignee Address: FI Helsinki
- Agency: Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
- Priority: EP13196677 20131211
- Main IPC: H03K17/04
- IPC: H03K17/04 ; H03K17/042 ; H03K17/082 ; H03K17/12

Abstract:
A method and apparatus are provided for balancing currents of two or more parallel-connected power semiconductor switches during an on-state of the switches. A control terminal of each switch is driven by a driver unit. The method includes determining ratios between the currents through the switches. For each switch, the method includes controlling the voltage at the control terminal on the basis of the ratios by controlling a level of a supply voltage of the driver unit of the switch, and after a turn-on commutation transient, modulating the output of the driver unit. The duty cycle of the modulation is controlled to minimize the time required for the transition of the voltage at the control terminal from the one voltage level to another.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150162902A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BALANCING CURRENTS Public/Granted day:2015-06-11
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