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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
May. 28, 2015
Applicant:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/335 (2006.01); H02M 1/08 (2006.01); H02M 1/38 (2007.01); H02M 7/538 (2007.01); H02M 7/48 (2007.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/33546 (2013.01); H02M 1/08 (2013.01); H02M 1/38 (2013.01); H02M 7/538 (2013.01); H02M 2007/4815 (2013.01); Y02B 70/1441 (2013.01);
Abstract
An activation circuit for activating a power bridge circuit of a resonance converter, including an inductive activation transformer that transfers a pulsed control signal generated via a CMOS driver to the power bridge circuit, wherein a clamping circuit is arranged at the output of each CMOS driver, where the clamping circuit clamps a primary winding of the activation transformer to a ground potential during the dead time between two pulses of the pulsed control signal such that overvoltages, which otherwise arise when switching the activation transformer inductance, are thus clamped during a dead time and a circuit breaker switches off securely.