Abstract:
An inverter for supplying a parallel tuned load is disclosed including a plurality of controlled switching devices, such as thyristors, a starting circuit and a control circuit for controlling the switching devices and the starting circuit. The inverter is operative to store energy prior to starting, to utilize the stored energy to excite the tune load into oscillation and to operate normally when the oscillations have reached a sufficient magnitude.
Abstract:
A firing control circuit comprised of a current source, a current-storage device responsive to current from the current source and a switching element which applies the stored current in the form of firing pulses to gate-controlled switches in response to ON-OFF conductive states determined by a timing pulse generator circuit.
Abstract:
The invention comprises a low-power variable frequency AC generator with inherently controllable output voltage means and inherent phase reversal capabilities. The AC generator includes switching circuits which are controlled by the output pulses of an adjustable frequency pulse generator to establish the period within which each phase of a polyphase voltage source is in conduction. Additional control circuitry is provided to subdivide the period allotted for each phase conduction into a conduction and nonconduction subperiods to thereby control the amplitude of the output voltage waveform. The adjustable frequency pulse generator is controlled by a DC voltage and the frequency of the output pulses is proportional to this voltage.
Abstract:
A converter system utilizing a control converter operated during both the positive and negative current half cycles of the output voltage to initiate firing pulses for a power converter which can be operated in either a noncirculating current mode or a circulating current mode.
Abstract:
An improved method of firing angle control of thyristor type converters and particularly cycloconverters each of the component waveforms of the converter as well as the composite output waveform of the converter are summed with a reference waveform and the difference resulting from each of the summations is integrated. The firing angles of the thyristors are established when a predetermined relationship exists between the integral corresponding to the composite output waveform and the integrals corresponding to the component waveforms. A system of control is employed wherein the firing points are determined as a function of the integral of the converter output waveform.