Commutating circuit for induction heating
CA 1104659 A · Owner: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited · Inventors: Hamaoka, Shigeo; Kiuchi, Mitsuyuki
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An induction heating apparatus includes a pair of thyristors inversely parallel connected to receive power from a low frequency energy source, a commutating circuit and a gating control circuit for supplying control pulses to the thyristors to produce a forward halfwave current through the commutating circuit which in return produces a backward commutating current to the thyristors. The gating control circuit includes a pulse transformer having a pair of secondary windings connected to the thyristors and a primary winding responsive to control pulses supplied from a pulse generator to produce a positive gating pulse in each of the secondary windings to drive one of the thyristors into …
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- Granted July 7, 1981. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 7, 1998.
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