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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 5/45 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 5/45 ;
Abstract
The power conversion device of the present invention comprises a power diode rectifier (REC) whose AC terminal is connected through an AC reactor (Ls) with an AC power source; voltage-type self-commutated power converters (CNV) whose AC terminals are connected with the AC terminal of this power diode rectifier through a recovery current suppression reactor (La); and a DC smoothing capacitor (Cd) connected between a DC common terminal of this voltage type self-commutated power converter and the power diode rectifier, with a load device connected in parallel therewith.