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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1982
Filed:
Jul. 02, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
George P Gurr, Dunwoody, GA (US);
Assignee:
Sangamo Weston, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H / ; H02H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
361 57 ; 361 54 ; 363 57 ; 363 58 ;
Abstract
A fault detector for detecting shoot-through conditions in series connected solid state rectifiers (326, 329) of a power inverter (314) is disclosed. A capacitor (311) discharges when a shoot-through occurs and the discharge current is detected by a current transformer (315). An SCR (317) is gated on by the detector to short circuit the DC bus (327, 328) and prevent damage to the solid state rectifiers (326, 329).