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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 1991
Filed:
Mar. 20, 1990
Kenneth Lipman, West Hartford, CT (US);
Douglas G Young, West Hartford, CT (US);
International Fuel Cells, Windsor, CT (US);
Abstract
A current balancing structure in which an alternating current output is produced by alternately connecting a DC potential to an output voltage bus through the switching action of a paralleled array of semiconductor devices forces equal current to flow through each device. During switching intervals, some semiconductor devices may 'turn-on' or 'turn-off' faster than others thus possibly forcing any conductive devices to carry a much higher current than when all the devices are conducting. Diodes protect the conductive devices by providing alternative circuit path to a DC reference potential voltage bus when one device becomes non-conductive before another paralleled device.