US 12,081,117 B2
High-frequency current source for an active EMI filter, active EMI filter and use of an active EMI filter
Alessandro Amaducci, Deitingen (CH); and Enrico Mazzola, Gerlafingen (CH)
Assigned to Schaffner EMV AG, Luterbach (CH)
Filed by Schaffner EMV AG, Luterbach (CH)
Filed on Feb. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/670,260.
Claims priority of application No. 21157666 (EP), filed on Feb. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0263407 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. H02M 1/15 (2006.01); H02M 1/44 (2007.01)
CPC H02M 1/44 (2013.01) [H02M 1/15 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A high-frequency current source for an active EMI filter comprising a output provided by an output network with two bipolar transistor in a symmetric common-emitter configuration connected between a upper supply rail with a first potential and a lower supply rail with a second potential, an active bias network determining the operating point of the two bipolar transistors, an analogue control network receiving the output and producing a DC correction signal that is fed to an error input of the active bias network to stabilize a DC value of the output, and a HF input controlling a high-frequency output current, wherein the analogue control network is configured to maintain the DC value of the output in a predetermined interval in the middle of a potential difference between the first and the second potential, wherein the analogue control network comprises a gain stage and an integrator stage in a low-pass filter configuration, and the active bias network comprises a voltage reference providing a constant voltage and a temperature-sensitive element introducing a temperature-dependent change in the base voltages of the transistors in the output network such that the DC value of the output is stabilized.