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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2005
Filed:
May. 30, 2003
Robert W. Erickson, Boulder, CO (US);
Osama A. Al-naseem, Safat, KW;
Lee Jay Fingersh, Westminster, CO (US);
Robert W. Erickson, Boulder, CO (US);
Osama A. Al-Naseem, Safat, KW;
Lee Jay Fingersh, Westminster, CO (US);
Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City, MO (US);
Abstract
A system and method for efficiently capturing electrical energy from a variable-speed generator are disclosed. The system includes a matrix converter using full-bridge, multilevel switch cells, in which semiconductor devices are clamped to a known constant DC voltage of a capacitor. The multilevel matrix converter is capable of generating multilevel voltage wave waveform of arbitrary magnitude and frequencies. The matrix converter can be controlled by using space vector modulation.