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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 26, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Alberto Abbondanti, Plum Boro, PA (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
363138 ; 363 37 ; 363 96 ; 318802 ; 318510 ;
Abstract
In a load commutated inverter induction motor drive a parallel capacitor bank is used in part to force-commutate the thyristors of the inverter as triggered by auxiliary thyristors and turned off by the other part of the capacitor bank.