Electrical power inverter having a phase modulated, twin-inverter, high frequency link and an energy storage module

Patent · Tue Feb 03 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:866131

Pitel, Ira J ^[1]

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1. Whippany, NJ

The present invention provides an electrical power inverter method and apparatus, which includes a high frequency link, for converting DC power into AC power. Generally stated, the apparatus includes a first high frequency module which produces an AC voltage at a first output frequency, and a second high frequency inverter module which produces an AC voltage at a second output frequency that is substantially the same as the first output frequency. The second AC voltage is out of phase with the first AC voltage by a selected angular phase displacement. A mixer mixes the first and second output voltages to produce a high frequency carrier which has a selected base frequency impressed on the sidebands thereof. A rectifier rectifies the carrier, and a filter filters the rectified carrier. An output inverter inverts the filtered carrier to produce an AC line voltage at the selected base frequency. A phase modulator adjusts the relative angular phase displacement between the outputs of the first and second high frequency modules to control the base frequency and magnitude of the AC line voltage.

• Research Organization: Magna-Power Electronics
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-83ER80007
• Assignee: Allied Corporation (Morris Township, Morris County, NJ)
• Patent Number(s): US 4641232
• Application Number: 06/693,955
• OSTI ID: 866131
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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