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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 1988
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Irving A Gibbs, Altamont, NY (US);
John H Parslow, Hamilton, MA (US);
Andrew J Galish, Ballston, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
322 26 ; 322 73 ; 322D / ; 322 63 ; 310 / ;
Abstract
A brushless generator exciter employs a hybrid full-wave rectifier in which at least some of the rectifying diodes are controllable according to an external signal for adjusting the total exciter power fed to the generator rotor. An optical transmission technique is employed for communicating gate and sync signals between stationary and rotating components.