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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:
Apr. 04, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 17, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M / ; G05F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
363 39 ; 363 37 ; 363 44 ; 323217 ;
Abstract
An active circuit for delivering three phase AC input power received from a three phase rectifier to a boost converter and a method of operating the same. In one embodiment, the active circuit includes a phase selection switching circuit, coupled to the rectifier, that selects an inner phase of the three phase AC input power. The active circuit also includes a switching network, coupled to the phase selection switching circuit and the rectifier, that controls a current waveshape of the inner phase and a current waveshape of at least one other phase, thereby to reduce harmonics associated with three phase AC input current.