A new zone-control induction heating system using multiple inverter units applicable under mutual magnetic coupling conditions

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2009-2017

  Fujita, Hideaki ^a   Uchida, Naoki ^b   Ozaki, Kazuhiro ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b MITSUI ENGINEERING AND SHIPBUILDING CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon graphites; induction heating; mutual inductance; mutual magnetic couplings; resonant inverters; semiconductor processing; zone control

Indexed keywords

MUTUAL INDUCTANCE; MUTUAL MAGNETIC COUPLINGS; RESONANT INVERTERS; SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING; ZONE CONTROLS;

HEATING; INDUCTANCE; INDUCTION HEATING; MAGNETIC LEAKAGE;

MAGNETIC COUPLINGS;

EID: 80051678338     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2101084     Document Type: Article

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