Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Mobility Gmbh

Stefan Hans Werner Schönewolf

Mark-Matthias Bakran

Jan Weigel

Andreas Nagel

Eberhard Ulrich Krafft

Jürgen Böhmer

Bernd Laska

Hans-georg Schrott

Martin Helsper

An absorption circuit arrangement is for a traction converter of a rail vehicle. The traction converter has a first power converter, a second power converter, a DC link circuit connecting the first power converter and the second power converter with a first and a second voltage potential and a link circuit capacitance arranged in the DC link circuit. The absorption circuit arrangement is arranged in the DC link circuit and is connected in parallel with the link circuit capacitance and contains a switching arrangement having a switching unit and an inductance. Each switching unit contains two terminals, two controllable power semiconductor switches and a switching unit capacitance and is configured, dependent upon switching settings of the power semiconductor switches, to provide at least two different voltages at the terminals.

Absorption circuit arrangement for a traction converter of a rail vehicle

A cooling device for an electrical installation, in particular, for a converter system of an electrical installation of a rail vehicle, includes a cooling path in which at least one power loss source is arranged and through which a coolant is able to flow. The cooling device includes a temperature sensor system configured to detect a failure of a mass flow of the coolant and includes at least two temperature sensors which are integrated in the cooling path in spaced-apart relationship in a transport direction of the coolant. The two temperature sensors are arranged in the transport direction of the coolant upstream of a passage of the mass flow of the coolant through a region of overlap of the cooling path with the power loss source.

Cooling device for an electrical switching installation and method for operating a cooling device of this kind

A modular power converter with wide-bandgap semiconductors, in particular SiC semiconductors. The modular power converter has at least two base units. The base units are connected together on the input side, and each base unit has an input circuit on the input side and an output circuit on the output side. The input circuit and the output circuit are each formed by the wide-bandgap semiconductors arranged in a B6-bridge circuit. An intermediate circuit capacitor is connected in parallel with the input circuit and the output circuit forming an intermediate circuit. The input circuits of the base units or a sub-quantity of the base units are arranged in a series circuit. At least one inductor is arranged between each pair of input circuits.

Modular power converter

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Nuremberg, Germany

Stefan Hans Werner Schönewolf