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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2015
Sew-eurodrive Gmbh & Co. KG, Bruchsal, DE;
Norbert Hettel, Au am Rhein, DE;
Hans Jürgen Kollar, Bruchsal, DE;
SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG, Bruchsal, DE;
Abstract
In a device for operating a rectifier, in particular a semi-controlled rectifier bridge, and a method for operating a rectifier, in particular a power converter, the rectifier is supplied from system phases, in particular from a three-phase AC voltage system, and supplies a unipolar voltage on the output side, the rectifier including controllable switches, in particular semiconductor switches such as thyristors, etc., a respective system phase supplying a respective current source, the current generated in each case being used as trigger signal for the controllable switch allocated to the respective system phase as a function of the state of a controllable switch unit.