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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1993
James A Blake, Franklin, WI (US);
Jonathan R Schmidt, Wales, WI (US);
Michael A Wu, Waukesha, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Abstract
A supply for a high bias voltage in an X-ray imaging system has an inverter and a voltage multiplier that produce an alternating output voltage in response to control signals. A voltage sensor produces a signal indicating a magnitude of the output voltage. A circuit determines a difference between the sensor signal and a reference signal that specifies a desired magnitude for the output voltage and that difference is integrated to produce an error signal. The error signal preferably is summed with a precondition signal that is an approximation of a nominal value for the signal sum and the summation producing a resultant signal. Another summation device arithmetically combines the resultant signal and the sensor signal with a signal corresponding to a one-hundred percent duty cycle of the inverter operation in order to produce a duty cycle command. An inverter driver generates the inverter control signals that have frequencies defined by the resultant signal and have duty cycles defined by the duty cycle command. A unique state machine is described which generates those control signals.