Voltage regulators for permanent magnet alternators
CA 1331999 C · Owner: Fitzner, Arthur Owen · Inventors: Fitzner, Arthur Owen
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A voltage regulator for an internal combustion engine having a permanent magnet alternator and utilizing an SCR/diode bridge rectifier includes crowbar SCR overvoltage protection means. To assure that the crowbar SCR has an adequate period in which to cool off after triggered on by an overvoltage surge, crowbar SCR operation is detected to generate a control signal to activate a timer which shuts off gate drive to the main bridge SCR's and thereby shuts down the bridge for a period of time sufficient to provide crowbar SCR recovery and cool off. In its preferred embodiment the, control signal is provided by the crowbar SCR gate to cathode voltage drop during protective operation which …
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- Granted September 13, 1994. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended September 13, 2011.
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