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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2001
Kevin Hickman, Witney, GB;
Oxford Magnet Technology Limited, Oxford, GB;
Abstract
There is disclosed a parallel loaded series resonant converter suitable for supplying DC to a three axis gradient amplifier in an MRI system. In conventional resonant circuits, output voltage is regulated by controlling the switching frequency of an H-bridge or half bridge switching arrangement and the resonant circuit ( ) is under more stress at no load than at full load. The voltage across the resonant capacitor ( ) is a function of the switching frequency, the load and the voltage applied across the resonant circuit (V -V ). In the present invention, the peak current at no load is reduced to lower than the peak current at full load by controlling the voltage applied to the resonant circuit (V -V ) rather than controlling the switching frequency.