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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2010
Lewei Qian, Peoria, IL (US);
Matthew Hendrickson, Dunlap, IL (US);
David Marchand, Dunlap, IL (US);
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Abstract
A method of regulating temperature of a transistor-based component of a power system is disclosed. The method may include operating the power system to supply electric power to the transistor-based component and converting the electric power from direct current to alternating current, or alternating current to direct current, using the transistor-based component, thereby creating heat in the transistor-based component. The method may include outputting the electric power from the transistor-based component and supplying the electric power to an electrically-powered component to perform an output operation. The method may include controlling, during a predetermined system operating condition, one or more operations of a component associated with the power system to actively generate heat to thereby maintain the temperature of the transistor-based component higher than from the conversion of electric power that is performed to produce the electric power used to perform the output operation during the predetermined system operating condition.