Patents by Inventor Siriroj Sirisukprasert

Siriroj Sirisukprasert has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7230837
    Abstract: A method of balancing the voltage of DC links in a cascaded multi-level converter (CMC) semiconductor circuit, including the steps of providing a plurality of H-bridge converters per phase in the CMC circuit and utilizing a three phase duty cycle value from the main controller to determine a normalized duty cycle value, a ceiling duty cycle value and a floor duty cycle value. The normalized duty cycle value and an output current of the CMC is used to determine the direction and polarity of a capacitor current, and utilizing the capacitor current to determine a plurality of output capacitor voltages. A voltage summation result and direction is obtained from a ceiling index pointer and a floor index pointer and the voltage summation result, direction from the ceiling index pointer and a floor index pointer are used to create a combined switching table for the H-bridge converters. A pulse width modulator is utilized to balance the voltage of the DC links and thereby eliminate DC-capacitor voltage imbalance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignees: North Carolina State University, Tennessee Valley Authority, Electrical Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Qin Huang, Abdel-Aty Edris, Michael R. Ingram, Siriroj Sirisukprasert