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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:
Jun. 04, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F21V 7/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F21V 7/04 ;
Abstract
An inverter device and a motor driving device are arranged to have a rush preventing circuit for preventing rush current from being flown in a smoothing circuit when the power is turned on. The rush preventing circuit includes a current-limiting means for limiting rush current, a plurality of semiconductor switching elements, a rush preventing circuit driving circuit for driving these semiconductor switching elements, and those semiconductor switching elements being connected in parallel to each other.