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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Frank Wegner Donnelly, North Vancouver, CA;
Brian Ward Gulayets, Burnaby, CA;
Assignee:
Railpower Technologies Corp., North Vancouver, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02P 7/68 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02P 7/68 ;
Abstract
A control system for individually controlling power from a single voltage source to a plurality of motors is described. A chopper circuit, in conjunction with the control system, generates drive-pulses, which operates the IGBT switching devices to sequentially provide pulses to each motor.