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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2019
Schmidhauser Ag, Romanshorn, CH;
Andreas Burgermeister, Mauren, CH;
Schmidhauser AG, Romanshorn, CH;
Abstract
A method operates an inverter, wherein the inverter includes a number of bridge arms with respective bridge terminals, wherein a respective bridge arm is electrically connected on a first side to a first intermediate circuit pole of the inverter, and wherein a respective bridge arm is electrically connected on a second side to a second intermediate circuit pole of the inverter. A respective bridge arm has at least two switching elements, wherein a respective bridge terminal, depending upon a circuit state of the switching elements in the bridge arm, is electrically connected either to the first intermediate circuit pole or to the second intermediate circuit pole. A shunt resistor is arranged in a respective bridge arm. The method actuates the respective switching elements of the bridge arms via pulse width modulation with a temporally variable pulse duty factor, such that voltages between the bridge terminals show a temporally defined characteristic. The respective switching elements of the bridge arms are actuated with flat-top modulation for specific angular ranges of a respective fundamental wave, and a respective pulse duty factor for the switching elements of the bridge arms, immediately ahead of and/or immediately after the angular ranges, varies within a predefined time interval in an angularly-independent manner.