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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2006
Applicant:
Thomas Edenfeld, Osnabrück, DE;
Inventor:
Thomas Edenfeld, Osnabrück, DE;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02P 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A wind turbine is disclosed. The wind turbine includes a synchronous generator having a stator and a rotor, and an AC-DC-AC link for coupling the synchronous generator to a grid, the AC-DC-AC link including a DC link. The DC link is used for supplying an excitation voltage to a rotor winding of the rotor. A DC-DC converter connects the DC link to the rotor winding of the rotor.