Patent ID: 11881765
Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KG
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 4:
5. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises:
connecting each submodule of the plurality of submodules to a bypass switch of another submodule of the plurality of submodules in terms of communication technology by using a respective communication element in order to monitor a state of a bypass switch of each respective submodule of the plurality of submodules by using another respective submodule; and
generating or amplifying the circulating current in the modular multilevel converter with the defective submodule when the communication element of a submodule monitoring the defective submodule and being connected to the bypass switch of the defective submodule in terms of communication technology communicates with the communication device.