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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2024
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Zachary W. Newell, Edwards, IL (US);
Venkata Ramakrishna Challa, Narasaraopet, IN;
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Abstract
A drive circuit includes a first half bridge gate driver including a first top device and a first bottom device; a second half bridge gate driver including a second top device and a second bottom device; jumper connections and a circuit board. The jumper connections configure the drive circuit as two parallel half bridge gate drivers connected in parallel when jumpers are applied to the jumper connections. The jumpers connect a control gate of the first top device to a control gate of the second top device and connect a control gate of the first bottom device to a control gate of the second bottom device. The circuit board includes the first and second half bridge gate drivers and electrical interconnect to configure the first half bridge gate driver and the second half bridge gate driver as a switched reluctance converter in the absence of the jumpers.