Patent ID: 7843166
Filing Date: 2010-11-30
Classification: H02M,H02P,Y02B,Y02P

Abstract:
1. An alternating-current power supply device which supplies an alternating current to an induction load and recovers magnetic energy at the time of cutting off an current so as to utilize the magnetic energy as an current to be supplied to the induction load, the alternating-current power supply device comprising: a bridge circuit composed of four reverse conducting semiconductor switches; a capacitor that is connected between direct-current terminals of the bridge circuit and stores the magnetic energy at the time of cutting off the current; an alternating-current voltage source that is connected to the induction load in series and is inserted between alternating-current terminals of the bridge circuit; and a control circuit that gives a control signal to gates of the respective reverse conducting semiconductor switches and controls on/off states of the respective reverse conducting semiconductor switches, wherein the control circuit simultaneously controls the on/off operation of the paired reverse conducting semiconductor switches positioned on a diagonal line of the four reverse conducting semiconductor switches composing the bridge circuit, makes a control so that when one pair of the two pairs is ON, the other pair is OFF, and switches the control signal in synchronization with a voltage of the alternating-current voltage source.