公开(公告)号：US12143029B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-12

申请号：US17801878

申请日：2021-03-02

Applicant: General Electric Technology GmbH

Inventor： Javier Chivite-Zabalza ,  John Outram ,  Colin Davidson

IPC: H02M7/217 ,  H02J3/36

Abstract: An electrical assembly includes a number of modules, each module including at least one module switching element and at least one energy storage device, each module switching element and each energy storage device in each module arranged to be combinable to provide a voltage source, each module including a discharge circuit with a discharge switching element and a discharge resistor, each discharge switching element switchable to switch the corresponding discharge resistor into and out of the corresponding module, wherein the electrical assembly includes a controller configured to control the discharge switching elements to modulate the switching of each discharge resistor into and out of the corresponding module in a voltage balancing mode when the modules are in a blocked state so that each module emulates a resistive load profile to balance a distribution of voltages between the modules, wherein the resistive load profile includes at least one positive resistive slope.