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US 10,207,587 B2Granted
Pre-charging switch arrangement, power supplying arrangement and method for connecting a load to a high direct-current voltage source
AssigneeTE Connectivity Germany GmbH
InventorJorg Einhorn
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Abstract
A pre-charging switch arrangement for charging a capacitor of a direct-current circuit is disclosed. The pre-charging switch arrangement has a pre-charging resistor, a pre-charging switch, and a voltage detection device connected to the pre-charging resistor and detecting a voltage across the pre-charging resistor.
Claims18
A pre-charging switch arrangement for charging a capacitor of a direct-current circuit, comprising:
- a pre-charging resistor;
- a pre-charging switch;
- and
- a voltage detection device connected to the pre-charging resistor and detecting a voltage across the pre-charging resistor, the voltage detection device has a comparator comparing the voltage across the pre-charging resistor with a reference voltage from a direct-current voltage source, an output of the comparator is connected to an input of a transmission unit and an output of the transmission unit is galvanically separated from the input of the transmission unit.
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A power supplying arrangement, comprising:
- a direct-current circuit connecting a high direct-current voltage source to a capacitor and having a controllable first switch and controllable second switch each arranged between a pole of the high direct-current voltage source and the capacitor;
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- a pre-charging switch arrangement connected in parallel with the controllable second switch and having a pre-charging resistor, a pre-charging switch, and a voltage detection device connected to the pre-charging resistor detecting a voltage across the pre-charging resistor, the voltage detection device has a comparator comparing the voltage across the pre-charging resistor with a reference voltage from a direct-current voltage source, an output of the comparator is connected to an input of a transmission unit and an output of the transmission unit is galvanically separated from the input of the transmission unit.
A method for connecting a load to a high direct-current voltage source, comprising:
- detecting a voltage across a pre-charging resistor arranged between the high current-current voltage source and the load;
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- connecting the load to the high direct-current voltage source depending on the voltage across the pre-charging resistor, a direct-current circuit connects the high direct-current voltage source to the load and has a controllable first switch and a controllable second switch each arranged between a pole of the high direct-current voltage source and the load.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.