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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1999
Zhenyu Yu, Sugarland, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for use in a pulse width modulation controlled voltage-source inverter having one or more legs, each leg including two transistors coupled serially between the terminals of a power source and providing a respective drive output, each leg further including a shunt resistor between one of the two transistors, denominated the lower transistor, and one of the terminals, in which control pulses are applied to each leg during a sequence of pulse periods. The method is for determining the phase current each leg supplies, and includes the following steps. The voltages are sampled across the shunt resistor in a plurality of sample periods. The voltages so sampled are averaged over the sample periods, and the phase current is determined from the average so derived.