Abstract:
The invention relates to a power semiconductor device (100) cooling assembly for cooling a power semiconductor device (100), wherein the assembly comprises an actively cooled heat sink (102) and a controller (208; 300), wherein the controller (208; 300) is adapted for adjusting the cooling efficiency of the heat sink (102) depending on the temperature of the high current carrying semiconductor junction comprised in the power semiconductor device (100).
Abstract:
A toroidal coil arrangement is disclosed which comprises a first toroid coil with a first set of windings (10, 11, 12, 13) which progress in a counterclockwise direction along the toroid, and a second toroid coil with a second set of windings (20, 21, 22, 23) which progress in a clockwise direction along the toroid, wherein both toroid coils are electrically connected with each other. This coil arrangement is especially suitable for use as a part of an electronic circuit which is positioned within the examination volume of a magnetic resonance imaging system, because the net axial magnetic field of this coil arrangement is substantially reduced so that disturbing interferences with the functioning of the MRI system, especially with the MR image generation, are accordingly decreased or prevented.
Abstract:
A method for driving a lamp with a variable duty cycle in a timing relationship with an input image signal (Si) comprises the steps of: receiving the image signal having a predetermined frame period (t3-tl); generating a high-frequency inverter signal (Sv); based on the received image signal, generating a dimming command signal (Sdcc) determining a target ON time (tl) for the lamp and determining a target OFF time (t2) for the lamp, such that the duty cycle (Δ=(t2-tl)/(t3-tl)) has a desired value; on the basis of the target ON time, determining an adapted ON time (ti l) coinciding with a first predetermined phase of the high-frequency inverter signal; on the basis of the target OFF time, determining an adapted OFF time (tl2) coinciding with a second predetermined phase of the inverter signal; switching the lamp ON at the adapted ON time and switching the lamp OFF at the adapted OFF time.
Abstract:
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus has also a switched-mode power supply which is operable at a switching frequency, wherein the switching frequency is adjustable within a given switching frequency interval. The apparatus further comprises a control unit which is adapted to determine a frequency value within the given switching frequency interval so that higher harmonics of the frequency value are outside of a frequency band used for the detection of MR signals. The control unit is further adapted to set the switching frequency of the switched-mode power supply to the determined frequency value, wherein the control unit employs for the determination of the frequency value information about the frequency band of the MR signals.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for determining drive values for driving a lighting device at a desired brightness and color. The method comprising the steps of determining a first luminous flux weight ratio based on the desired color and a first drive current for driving each of the differently colored LEDs, determining a first luminous flux for each of the differently colored LEDs based on the desired brightness and the first luminous flux weight ratio, comparing, for each of the differently colored LEDs, the first luminous flux with a nominal luminous flux for a plurality of different drive currents, selecting, for each of the differently colored LEDs, a preferred drive current that at least can produce the first luminous flux, determining a second luminous flux weight ratio based on the desired color and the selected drive currents for each of the differently colored LEDs, determining a second luminous flux for each of the differently colored LEDs based on the desired brightness and the second luminous flux weight ratio, and determining a duty cycle for each of the differently colored LEDs at the selected drive currents, wherein the selected currents at the determined duty cycles produces the second luminous flux for each of the differently colored LEDs. The present invention provides for the possibility to limit the number of necessary computational steps for determining preferred drive currents. Furthermore, an increase in number of current level and/or differently colored LEDs would only slightly increase the computational cost.