Patent ID: 8063612

Claim:
A diesel-electric drive system having a generator mechanically coupled on the rotor side to a diesel engine and mechanically coupled on the stator side to a voltage intermediate-circuit converter, the voltage intermediate-circuit converter having a voltage intermediate circuit, first and second generator-side self-commutated pulse-controlled converters and at least one load-side self-commutated pulse-controlled converter, the generator-side self-commutated pulse-controlled converters having a DC voltage side and at least one of the generator-side self-commutated pulse-controlled converters having a braking resistor, said drive system further comprising: a first polyphase winding system electrically conductively connected to a first generator-side self-commutated pulse-controlled converter having at least one input phase; a second polyphase winding system electrically conductively connected to a second generator-side self-commutated pulse-controlled converter and in parallel with the voltage intermediate circuit of the voltage intermediate-circuit converter on the DC voltage side of the second generator-side self-commutated pulse-controlled converter, the second generator-side self-commutated pulse-controlled converter having at least one input phase; and a braking resistor electrically conductively connecting at least one input phase of the first generator-side self-commutated pulse-controlled converter to a corresponding input phase of the second generator-side self-commutated pulse-controlled converter.