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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2001
Hans-jürgen Kollar, Bruchsal, DE;
Hans-Jürgen Kollar, Bruchsal, DE;
Sew-Eurodrive GmbH & Co., Bruchsal, DE;
Abstract
A method and a device for protecting at least one consumer against overvoltages when working with a method for non-contact transmission of electric power from one or more medium-frequency current sources, whose frequencies may have deviations around medium frequency f, to the at least one moving consumer via one or more transmission lines and transformer heads, allocated to the consumers, having a downstream matching controller for adjusting the power received from the transmission line; a transmission line is fed from a medium-frequency current source with a medium-frequency current that is constant in its effective value during the power transmission; the respective consumer is supplied with energy by at least one matching controller having at least one feed-in; one or more fed currents are rectified in each instance in a rectifier, smoothed in each instance by a link-circuit reactor and brought together; with the aid of a switch, the link-circuit current, brought together in each instance, is either supplied to a link-circuit capacitor buffering output voltage Uof the matching controller, or is shunted upstream of the link-circuit capacitor, depending upon the power demand of the consumers; and the voltage Uat at least one link-circuit capacitor is compared to a predefinable value, and if this value is exceeded, an electronic power circuit-breaker is turned on for shunting the link-circuit current.