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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2022
GE Energy Power Conversion Technology Limited, Warwickshire, GB;
Martin Geske, Berlin, DE;
Gregory Reichhold, Berlin, DE;
GE Energy Power Conversion Technology Limited, Warwickshire, GB;
Abstract
A power converter system is described. The power converter system includes a power converter comprising at least one converter unit, each converter unit comprising a plurality of semiconductor devices, each semiconductor device including at least a controllable semiconductor switch. A local controller is associated with at least one converter unit and adapted to receive CD and MD from a main controller. In response to a detected fault condition of the power converter system, the local controller is adapted to use at least one of the one or more locally-stored values to determine an operating state of the power converter system, and to use the determined operating state to select a fault operating procedure to control each associated converter unit according to the selected fault operating procedure without using any CD from the main controller.