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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:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kosaku Ichikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/24 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/24 ;
Abstract
An NPC inverter control system includes a DC power source having a neutral point corresponding to a junction of a pair of capacitors connected in serial one another, a positive electrode and a negative electrode, at least one multi-level inverter circuit having a plurality of semiconductor devices coupled to the DC power source and configured to invert the DC power to an AC power and to supply the AC power to a load, and a plurality of saturatable reactors configured to join the positive and negative electrodes of the DC power source to the multi-level inverter circuit.