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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Erie, PA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
363 98 ; 323222 ; 323269 ;
Abstract
A power supply for a gate drive voltage supply system for a power inverter is coupled to receive a variable DC voltage and operable to produce a regulated DC output voltage to each of a plurality of distributed electronic switching devices. The system includes a plurality of linear voltage regulators with each respective one of the regulators having a power input terminal coupled to a common DC link. Each of the regulators is separately connected to a ground reference at a ground reference power terminal of a corresponding one of the switching devices so as to eliminate ground loops and voltage drops over a common ground bus.