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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
May. 29, 2018
Protean Electric Limited, Franham, GB;
Richard Burke, Farnham, GB;
PROTEAN ELECTRIC LIMITED, Farnham, GB;
Abstract
A controller for an electric motor system including a three phase bridge inverter having a plurality of high side switches and a plurality of low side switches, the controller comprising means arranged upon detection of a fault in one of the high side switches to place the remaining high side switches in a closed circuit configuration and the plurality of low side switches in an open circuit configuration and upon detection of a fault in one of the low side switches to place the remaining low side switches in a closed circuit configuration and the plurality of high side switches in an open circuit configuration to allow coil windings of an electric motor to be placed in a short circuit configuration.