Performance improvements in an arc welding power supply based on resonant inverters

Conference Record - IAS Annual Meeting (IEEE Industry Applications Society)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Navarro Crespin, Alejandro ^a   Casanueva, Rosario ^a   Azcondo, Francisco J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arc welding; Resonant power conversion; Switched mode power supplies; Synchronous rectification

Indexed keywords

ARC WELDING POWER SUPPLY; ARC-WELDING; INTERLEAVING OPERATION; OPERATION SEQUENCES; OPERATION TEMPERATURE; OUTPUT CAPACITOR; OUTPUT POWER; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; POWER SUPPLY; RESONANT INDUCTORS; RESONANT INVERTERS; RESONANT POWER CONVERSION; SWITCHED MODE POWER SUPPLIES; SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFICATION; TIG-WELDING;

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC ARC WELDING; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; STANDBY POWER SYSTEMS; WELDING;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 78649857788     PISSN: 01972618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAS.2010.5615497     Document Type: Conference Paper

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