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Albert Mueller

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Hartmut Gaul

To maintain a defined three-phase voltage system at the output terminals of a transformer device TE, for example, a transformer in a delta/wye connection where the primary-side neutral point is unconnected, even when an asymmetrical load is connected to it and to the secondary-side neutral point, single-phase transformers are used, whose primary windings are supplied with voltage by a pulse-width modulated, three-phase invertor in a bridge connection. Through the use of voltage regulators, the actual values of the secondary-side line voltages form the control voltages for each bridge-arm pair. The closed-loop control circuits of the three phase voltages are broken down in accordance with the structure of the transformer device by means of a break-down element. The setpoint values can be calibrated to a synchronizing voltage, and/or a current control for the conductor currents is superposed on the voltage regulators.

Method and apparatus for supplying voltage to a three-phase voltage

Exactly defined current pulses having high edge steepness and high final value are required for the pulse-like generation of high magnetic fields in inductive users. Particularly in nuclear magnetic resonance tomography, such pulses serve the purpose of building up a topically variable magnetic field with an optimally linear field strength gradient. A power supply for generating such current pulses includes a series connection of a stepping voltage switch and a variable voltage source, whose resultant output voltage is applied to the inductive by a voltage commutator user with a suitable operational sign for the build-up or dismantling of the individual pulses. A switching and regulating circuit controls the stepping switch, the variable voltage source and the voltage commutator dependent on prescribed rated curves of the pulses, such that the pulses have a rise and decay time independent of the final value.

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Albert Mueller