US 3,938,026 AGranted

Circuit for the simultaneous ignition of a plurality of thyristors

AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft

InventorsManfred Hoffmann, Jakob Schenk, Karl-Friedrich Leowald

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Abstract

The invention relates to a circuit arrangement for the simultaneous ignition of a plurality of thyristors. Control paths of the thyristors are each connected to a secondary winding of a pulse transformer by way of a separate full-wave rectifier, an alternating current of higher frequency being supplied to the primary winding of the pulse transformer by a control current amplifier. In order to obtain a continuous flow of control current when a control signal is given, it is provided, according to the invention, that there is connected to the control path of each thyristor the series arrangement of a storage reactance coil and an uncontrolled diode poled in the direction of the gate current, and that the output of the full-wave rectifier is connected to this uncontrolled diode.

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Dependent claims

Apparatus for the simultaneous ignition of a plurality of series-connected thyristors comprising,

a control amplifier the output of which is an alternating current,
a pulse transformer, the primary windings of which are coupled to the output of said control amplifier, said transformer having a plurality of secondary windings,
a plurality of full-wave rectifiers, one each coupled to said secondary windings, and having two output leads,
a plurality of control circuits, one each coupled in the control path of each thyristor, each control circuit comprising,
a storage reactance coil having a first lead coupled to the grid of the thyristor and a second lead coupled to one output lead of a full-wave rectifier, and
an uncontrolled diode having its cathode coupled to said second lead of said storage reactance coil, and its anode coupled to the cathode of the thyristor and the other output lead of said rectifier.

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