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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2010
Applicant:
Yvan Cadoux, Saint Aupre, FR;
Inventor:
Yvan Cadoux, Saint Aupre, FR;
Assignee:
Schneider Electric Industries SAS, Rueil Malmaison, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 7/5387 (2007.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A power converter includes a bus capacitor connected between a positive line and a negative line of a power supply bus and multiple switching legs connected between the positive line and the negative line of the power supply bus. Each switching leg includes two field-effect type transistors connected in series. The power converter also includes a first switch connected to the positive line of the power supply bus, upstream of the bus capacitor, a second switch connected to the positive line of the power supply bus, downstream of the bus capacitor, and a controller that controls the first switch and the second switch.