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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2019
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Yantao Song, Northville, MI (US);
Baoming Ge, Okemos, MI (US);
Lihua Chen, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Fan Xu, Novi, MI (US);
Serdar Hakki Yonak, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A power converter has a pair of series connected switches defining a phase leg, a pair of gate driver circuits that respectively provide power to gates of the series connected switches, a positive rail electrically connected with the phase leg, and a clamping circuit including a clamping switch. The clamping circuit, responsive to one of the gate driver circuits being de-energized, activates the clamping switch with energy from the positive rail to clamp a gate of one of the series connected switches associated with the one of the gate driver circuits to another terminal of the one of the series connected switches.