DC INVERTER/CONVERTER CURRENT BALANCING FOR PARALLELED PHASE LEG SWITCHES

    公开(公告)号:US20210313906A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-07

    申请号:US17352514

    申请日:2021-06-21

    IPC分类号: H02M7/5387 H02M1/08 H02P27/08

    摘要: Current imbalances between parallel switching devices in a power converter half leg are reduced. A gate driver generates a nominal PWM gate drive signal for a respective half leg. A first feedback loop couples the nominal PWM gate drive signal to a gate terminal of a respective first switching device. The first feedback loop has a first mutual inductance with a current path of a first parallel switching device and has a second mutual inductance with a current path of a second parallel switching device. The first and second mutual inductances are arranged to generate opposing voltages in the first feedback loop, so that when all the parallel switching devices carry equal current then the voltages cancel.

    INVERTER SYSTEM WITH ENHANCED COMMON SOURCE INDUCTANCE GENERATED AT GATE DRIVER

    公开(公告)号:US20200153362A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-14

    申请号:US16186973

    申请日:2018-11-12

    摘要: A multiphase inverter for an electric vehicle drive has a plurality of drivers to provide drive signals to respective gate loops of upper and lower transistors in the phase legs. A transformer has a secondary winding in a first gate loop of a first transistor in one phase leg and a primary winding connecting a Kelvin-emitter of the first transistor to a Kelvin-emitter of a second transistor in the other phase leg. Switching transients of transistors are shortened because when gate signal is toggled to change a conduction state of a transistor in a first phase leg, a rate of current change in the first leg is sensed in a transformer primary winding connected across a stray inductance of the first leg. A voltage proportional to the sensed rate is added to the gate signal via a transformer secondary winding, thereby increasing a common source inductance of the transistor.

    MINIMIZING RINGING IN WIDE BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

    公开(公告)号:US20190229721A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-25

    申请号:US16256304

    申请日:2019-01-24

    IPC分类号: H03K17/16 H01L29/16 H02M3/158

    摘要: Embodiments include a power conversion circuit comprising first and second semiconductor switches, and a drive circuit configured to create a period of operational overlap for the first and second switches by setting a gate voltage of the first switch to an intermediate value above a threshold voltage of the first switch, during turn-on and turn-off operations of the second switch. Embodiments also include a method of operating first and second semiconductor devices, comprising: reducing a gate voltage of the first device to an intermediate value above a threshold voltage while the second device is off; turning off the first device after the second device is on; increasing the gate voltage of the first device to the intermediate value while the second device is on; and fully turning on the first device after the second device is off.