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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2010
Applicant:
Robert Matthew Martinelli, Murrieta, CA (US);
Inventor:
Robert Matthew Martinelli, Murrieta, CA (US);
Assignee:
THE BOEING COMPANY, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F 1/00 (2006.01); H02M 3/158 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/1588 (2013.01); Y02B 70/1441 (2013.01); Y02B 70/1491 (2013.01);
Abstract
Technologies are described herein for force commutating a current from a cathode terminal of a diode to an anode terminal of the diode. In one aspect, a method for eliminating diode reverse recovery time is presented herein. The method includes force commutating a current from a cathode terminal of a diode to an anode terminal of the diode. According to embodiments, the diode may be an intrinsic part of a component, such as a field effect transistor (FET). In such embodiments, the FET is switched from being on to off while force commutating a current through the body diode of the FET.