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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2015
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A power converter receives a DC supply voltage across a phase leg. The phase leg comprises an upper switching device and a lower switching device coupled across the DC link, wherein a junction between the upper and lower switching devices is configured to be coupled to a load. A gate driver is coupled to the phase leg activating the respective upper switching device according to an upper gate signal and activating the respective lower switching device according to a lower gate signal in response to a pulse-width modulation (PWM) control signal at a PWM frequency. The gate driver shuffles among a plurality of alternate paired sets of dead-time inserted signals. Each paired set of dead-time inserted signals corresponds to a different distortion of a current flowing in the load, so that overall distortion is dispersed.