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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 15, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gary Lee Deck, Bethel, PA (US);
Assignee:
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
363 86 ;
Abstract
A voltage regulator (12) for controlling and limiting the output voltage of an alternator (10) includes a control circuit having a full wave rectifier (28) for impressing a series of half wave pulses (32) onto a first circuit (34) in correspondence to the output of the alternator (10). A gate controlled switch (36) is utilized to conduct the half wave pulses (32) to the output circuit (24) when a gate signal is present. A voltage detector (44) monitors the output voltage and shunts the gate signal to ground when the output voltage reaches a given upper value and removes the shunt when the output voltage recedes to a given lower value.