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Adolf Habock

Karl-Friedrich Leowald

Oskar Beckmann

Stefan Frese

Franz Mayerhofer

Herbert Radda

Paul F Muller

Patrick Woehrle

A control unit for a converter has a circuit for the formation of a periodic control signal having a given pulse pattern including a memory in which code words designating the position of the switching pulses (flanks) of the control signals in one period or subperiod of the converter voltage, divided into a number of increments, are stored. Address input of the memory is connected to an addressing unit which generates addresses associated with the pulse pattern of the control signal and with the switching pulses within the pulse pattern. A digital comparator compares the code words at the output of the memory with the count of a counter. Whenever the code word and the count are in agreement, the comparator triggers a pulse stage generator whose output signal represents the control signal and advances the addressing unit to the next address. The invention makes possible the formation of control signals independent of circuit for different converter types and converter circuits is thus made possible.

Control unit for a converter

The invention concerns a circuit arrangement for the wireless transmission of control signals to the control paths of controlled semiconductor valves, particularly of thyristors, which are preferably usable in a rectifier for high voltage. The control signals are provided for the modulation of a high-frequency transmitter which is disposed at some distance from high frequency receivers each containing a demodulator, whose output signal is delivered to the control path of a semiconductor valve. In order to ensure reliable and interference-proof firing of the semiconductor valves, if the distance between the high-frequency transmitter and the high-frequency receiver is large, there is provided, a frequency-modulated high-frequency transmitter as the high-frequency transmitter. The carrier frequency of the frequency modulated transmitter is in the range of 10 MHz to 50 GHz and has a transmitting antenna provided with a reflector which is directed toward receiving antennas with which the individual high-frequency receivers are equipped. The demodulator contained in each high-frequency receiver comprises a filter which is tuned to the modulation frequency associated with the control signal (p2, p5) which substantially blocks the passage of other frequencies.

Circuit arrangement for the wireless transmission of control signals to

The invention concerns a firing device for a number of electric valves, particularly thyristors. Each thyristor control path is associated with a firing circuit with a detector for electromagnetic radiation responsive to a transmitter which is controlled by a firing control signal and is equipped with a radiating device which energizes the individual detectors. The detectors are arranged close together in a plane perpendicular to the radiation direction of the radiator. In order to obtain latitude in the arrangement of the detectors, the radiator is designed so that it furnishes a parallel-ray bundle of radiation and the detectors are spatially arranged relative to each other, such that they are exposed to the parallel ray bundle without mutual shadowing upon projection in the direction of the radiation on a projection plane which is perpendicular to the radiation direction.

Firing apparatus for a plurality of electric valves

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Uttenreuth, Germany

Adolf Habock