Single-phase voltage source inverter circuit with power filter reduction

Abstract

A single-phase voltage source inverter and method including a main inverter circuit connected to an active power filter circuit, the main inverter circuit comprising an H-bridge circuit comprising a first leg and a second leg, the first leg comprising a first switch, a second switch, and the second leg comprising a third switch and a fourth switch, the active power filter circuit comprising a third leg comprising a fifth switch and a sixth switch, the main inverter circuit connected to a secondary side of a high frequency transformer and a grid filter in series, and adapted to be connected to an AC load, a primary of the high frequency transformer and a capacitor connected in series to the active power filter leg and an H-bridge leg.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.