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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2009
Applicants:
Klaus Schmitt, Giessen, DE;
Wolfgang Schmidt, Reiskirchen, DE;
Heiko Scheffler, Buseck, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Newfrey LLC, Newark, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/335 (2005.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A heating current used to inductively heat a metallic or magnetic work-piece is generated by an inverter supplied by a supply voltage. The inverter includes four switching elements arranged in an H-bridge circuit having two parallel longitudinal branches and a transverse branch. The switches are controlled so the heating current flows through the transverse branch. The diagonally opposed switching elements are switched from a conductive to a non-conductive state in a temporally staggered manner.