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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2014
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Simon Herbert Schramm, Garching B. Munich, DE;
Said Farouk Said El-Barbari, Garching B. Munich, DE;
Stefan Schroeder, Garching B. Munich, DE;
Zhihui Yuan, Garching B. Munich, DE;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A power converter includes primary and secondary bridges, a transformer, and a controller configured to generate a switching mode map that correlates each of a plurality of switching modes to a respective set of value ranges of system parameters of the power converter. The sets of system parameter value ranges are contiguous and non-overlapping across the switching mode map, each of the plurality of switching modes includes gate trigger voltage timings for commuting at least one of the primary and secondary bridges. The controller is configured to obtain a plurality of measured system parameter values, select from the switching mode map one of the plurality of switching modes that correlates to the set of system parameter values containing the plurality of measured system parameter values, and adjust gate trigger voltage timings of at least one of the primary and secondary bridges, according to the selected switching mode.