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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022
Filed:
May. 20, 2020
Vacon Oy, Vaasa, FI;
Stefan Schroeder, Ismaning, DE;
Dan Isaksson, Durham, NC (US);
Risto Komulainen, Klaukkala, FI;
Stefan Strandberg, Vörå, FI;
Vacon Oy, Vaasa, FI;
Abstract
A converter circuitry between a first network, which may be either a poly-phase medium-voltage alternating current (AC) network, at least one polyphase low-voltage AC network or at least one direct-current (DC) network, and a second network, which may be either a polyphase medium-voltage AC network or a medium-voltage DC network, wherein the converter circuitry comprises at least one power bus and low-voltage power cells both at the first and at the second network side such that each power cell is connected to a power bus via a transformer. Each power bus is connected to a low-voltage power unit, which is able to supply pre-charging power via the power bus to all power cell intermediate DC-link filtering capacitors before the converter is started. The low-voltage power unit is also able to take care of a resistor braking in case the first network cannot take the power supplied by the load connected to the second network.