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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Jun 12, 1984
|Filing date
|Dec 9, 1981
|Priority date
|Dec 9, 1981
|Fee status
|Also published as
|Publication number
|Alvin A. Bush, John Giorgis, Jr., Thomas E. Anderson
|Original Assignee
|General Electric Company
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (6), Non-Patent Citations (2), Referenced by (13), Classifications (10), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
Ser. No. 472,681, filed Mar. 7, 1983, Thomas E. Anderson et al, "Stored Charge Inverter Circuit", assigned the same as this invention, a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 184,648, filed Sept. 5, 1980, Thomas E. Anderson et al, "Stored Charge Inverter Circuit", assigned the same as this invention.
Ser. No. 284,016, filed July 16, 1981, Thomas E. Anderson et al, "Stored Charge Inverter Circuit with Rapid Switching", assigned the same as this invention now U.S. Pat. No. 4,408,270, issued Oct. 4, 1983.
The invention is in the field of inverter circuits employing transistors as switches for producing a-c output energy from d-c input energy.
Inverter circuits have been known in various configurations, such as push-pull, full-bridge, and half-bridge. A widely used type of push-pull inverter circuit employs a center-tapped load often in the form of a transformer having a center-tapped primary winding, and a secondary winding connected to a load device such as a lamp or lamps, for example fluorescent lamps, or a motor, induction heater, or other suitable device. A pair of transistor switches are respectively connected to the ends of the primary winding and are controlled to switch current through the halves of the primary winding in an alternating push-pull manner.
The above-referenced patent applications, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference thereto, disclose inverter circuits in which the switching transistors are alternately rendered conductive by stored charges produced therein by flyback induced voltage in the load. FIG. 5 of the second referenced patent application discloses a push-pull stored charge inverter circuit having two individual control circuits for synchronously controlling the switching of the switching transistors.
Objects of the invention are to provide an improved inverter circuit, and to provide a simplified and economical push-pull stored charge rapid switching inverter circuit that has a single control circuit for synchronously controlling the switching of the switching transistors.
The invention comprises, briefly and in a preferred embodiment, a push-pull stored charge inverter circuit for sn inductive load, the circuit having a pair of transistors connected to alternately and repetitively apply electrical energy to the load, means for rendering the transistors alternately conductive by stored charges produced by flyback induced voltage in the load, said means including a single control circuit connected to periodically render the transistors nonconductive and remove their stored charges.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a prior-art push-pull inverter circuit as disclosed in the second above-referenced patent application, and is a combination of FIGS. 2 and 5 thereof.
FIG. 2 is a time-plot showing of certain signals, voltage, and current in the circuit of FIG. 1 when operating.
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a preferred embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 4 is a time-plot showing of certain signals, voltage, and current in the circuit of FIG. 3 when operating.
In FIG. 1, d-c electrical power input terminals 11 and 12 receive positive and negative polarity power, respectively from a d-c power source which may be a rectifier type of power supply for deriving d-c power from a household or commercial a-c power source. An inductive load 16 comprises a transformer 21 having a center-tapped primary winding in the form of two primary winding halves 21a, 21b, and having a secondary winding 21c connected to one or more fluorescent lamps 19 or other load device. The center-tap 21' is connected to the positive polarity terminal 11. The load 16 is inductive or has an inductive component, such as a gas discharge lamp, motor, inductive heating unit, etc., and may include a transformer coupling. If the load per se is not inductive, the required inductive component can be provided by a coupling transformer or other suitable means.
A first pair of transistors Q1 and Q3 have their output electrodes connected in series between the outer end of transformer winding 21a and negative power input terminal 12. More specifically, the collector 22 of Q1 is connected to winding 21a, and its emitter 23 is connected to the collector 24 of Q3, of which the emitter 26 is connected to terminal 12. Similarly, a second pair of transistors Q2 and Q4 have their output electrodes connected in series between the outer end of the transformer winding 21b and terminal 12; more specifically, the collector 31 of Q2 is connected to winding 21b and its emitter 32 is connected to the collector 33 of Q4, of which the emitter 34 is connected to terminal 12. Transistors Q3 and Q4 function similarly and are herein designated the "first" transistors of each pair, and transistors Q1 and Q2 function similarly and are herein designated the "second" transistors of each pair.
The output of a source 41 of square wave control voltage or current signal 42, preferably at a frequency of 20 kilohertz or higher, is coupled, via a transformer 43, between the emitter 34 and base 44 of transistor Q4 and also is coupled, via a transformer 46, between the emitter 26 and the base 47 of transistor Q3. The connections to the transformers 43 and 46 are made so that the control voltage 42 is applied to the transistors Q3 and Q4 in opposite phases so as to render them in a condition to be alternately and repetitively conductive; i.e., when Q3 is in condition to be "on", Q4 is "off", and vice versa.
A resistor 56, diode 57, and resistor 58 are connected in series and in the order named between the base 59 of transistor Q2 and base 44 of transistor Q4, the cathode of diode 57 being toward base 59. The output of a source 61 of a single starting pulse 62 is connected to one of the transistors Q1 or Q2; as shown, it is connected to Q2 and more specifically is connected between the emitter 34 of transistor Q4 and the junction 63 of diode 57 and resistor 58. The starting pulse 62 may be synchronized with the control voltage or current 42 so as to render transistor Q2 conductive at a time when Q4 is rendered conductive; thereafter, as will be described, Q2 (and also Q1) are rendered periodically conductive by means of stored charges obtained from flyback current in the load 16. Starting pulse 62 would also render Q4 conductive if the control signal 42 had not commenced. Diode 57 functions to block a flow of current from the base path of Q2 which will be described subsequently. Components 51, 52, and 53, the same as resistors 56, 58 and diode 57, can be provided between base 54 of Q1 and base 47 of Q3 if identical halves of the circuit are desired, for example if they are integrated circuits or if a choice is desired of applying the starting pulse 62 to Q1 or to Q2. A diode D1 is connected between terminal 12 and the base 54 of Q1, with its cathode toward base 54, and a pair of nonlinear devices such as transistors or diodes D3, D5 are connected in series with a resistor 78 between these same points, with their anodes toward base 54. A clamping transistor Q5 is connected across the winding 46, with its collector 76 and emitter 77 respectively connected to the base 47 and emitter 26 of transistor Q3, its base 79 being connected to the junction of resistor 78 and diode D5. Similarly, a diode D2 is connected between voltage input terminal 12 and the base 59 of Q2, with its cathode toward base 59, and a pair of nonlinear devices such as transistors or diodes D4, D6 are connected in series with a resistor 83 between these same points, with their anodes toward base 59. A clamping transistor Q6 is connected across the winding 43, with its collector 81 and emitter 82 respectively connected to the base 44 and emitter 34 of transistor Q4, its base 84 being connected to the junction of resistor 83 and diode D6.
The circuit of FIG. 1 functions as follows, with reference to the electrical waveshapes shown in FIG. 2. The turn-on pulse 62, which may be of shorter time duration than the individual square waves 42, occurs in synchronization with the square waves 42 such as to cause transistor Q2 to turn on and be conductive at the same time Q4 is conductive. The turn-on pulse 62 can be of very short time duration and can terminate prior to termination of the first square wave half-cycle applied to Q4, as is shown in the drawing, because a stored charge is induced in Q2 by the turn-on pulse 62 which maintains Q2 conductive during the time Q4 is conductive, as is more fully disclosed in the first above-referenced patent application. While Q2 and Q4 are thus conductive, current flows from the positive terminal 11 through winding 21b of load 16, and Q2 and Q4 to the negative terminal 12. Upon polarity reversal of the control voltage of the square wave 42, transistor Q3 is rendered in condition to be conductive, and Q4 is rendered nonconductive whereby the current is interrupted in the load 16; however, stored energy in the inductive component of the load produces a "flyback" voltage and current in winding 21b, which induces in winding 21a a voltage of greater negative polarity at collector 22 of Q1 than the negative voltage at terminal 12, causing current to pass through the diode D1 and the base 54 and collector 22 of transistor Q1. This flyback-induced current pulse 66 in base 54 renders transistor Q1 fully conductive. During this time Q1 operates as an inverted transistor where the base-collector junction becomes the emitter and the base-emitter junction becomes the collector. A charge 67 is stored in Q1 during this time. When the inductive energy has dissipated the stored charge keeps the transistor Q1 conductive, so that current now flows from terminal 11 through the load winding 21a and transistors Q1, Q3, to terminal 12, the current in the load being 180 degrees out of phase to that of current flow when transistors Q2 and Q4 conduct. The stored charge 67 partly drains off, as shown by curve 67; however, the frequency of the square wave control signal is chosen sufficiently high (20 kilohertz, for example) so that the stored charge is effective in maintaining conduction of the transistor during the half cycle of the square wave. When the square wave 42 next renders transistors Q3 and Q1 nonconductive, and terminates the load current, stored energy induced in the inductive component of the load winding 21b produces a flyback voltage and current 68 (of negative polarity) which is conducted through the collector-base junction of transistor Q2, and diode D2, as shown in the drawing, which renders transistor Q2 again conductive, operating in an inverted mode, and creates a stored charge 69 in the transistor which maintains the transistor in a fully conductive state until the next half-cycle of the square wave. The process is repetitive and applies a square wave of voltage 71 at the load 16 which causes an alternating current 72 to flow in the load device 19.
Transistors do not tend to turn on and off instantly; there is a certain time required, for example a few microseconds or milliseconds, for changing from nonconduction to full conduction, and vice versa. Transistor turn-off time tends to be slowed due to the above-described stored charge tending to keep it conductive. The circuit minimizes this problem by connecting the diodes D3, D5 and D4, D6 to the bases of transistors Q1 and Q2, respectively, and by opening the emitter current paths of Q1 and Q2 by means of the switching control transistors Q3 and Q4. Assume that Q1 and Q3 are conducting during a half cycle of circuit operation, whereupon the control voltage 42 drives the base 47 of Q3 negative, to turn off Q3. As Q3 is turning off, its current diminishes and its collector-to-emitter impedance increases, causing the voltage of the electrodes of Q1 to rise toward the positive voltage at terminal 11; when the rising voltage at the base 54 reaches the turn-on conduction level of diodes D3 and D5 they become conductive and divert Q1 current through the base 54 as shown by curve 73. This current 73 flows from terminal 11 through winding 21 a the collector-base path 22, 54 of Q1, the diodes D3, D5, and resistor 78 in parallel with the base-emitter of Q5 to terminal 12. This surge of negative base current quickly "dumps" the residual stored charge out of the base 54 of Q1, as indicated by numeral 67 in FIG. 2 whereby Q1 turns off very rapidly. During this "dumping" action, the entire collector 22 current flows through base 54 and none flows through emitter 23, which aids in speeding the turn-off of Q1. This current flow ceases upon depletion of the stored charge. When Q1 is fully off, the pair of transistors Q1, Q3 is fully off. Similarly, when Q4 is being turned off, its collector-to-emitter impedance increases, causing the voltage of the electrodes of Q2 to rise toward the voltage of terminal 11, and the diodes D4, D6 become conductive and a surge of current 74 flows through the collector-base path 31, 59 and quickly "dumps" the residual stored charge, as indicated by numeral 69 in FIG. 2, thereby Q2 turns off very rapidly and terminates the current flow through the pair of transistors Q2, Q4. The "dumping" current pulses 73, 74 last a very short time, such as about one microsecond. The number of diodes D3, D5 and D4, D6 employed in series depends on the desired turn-on point for the stored charge dumping action.
The just described rapid turn-off switching helps insure that both transistors of a pair are turned off (or at least one of the transistors is turned off) by the time the other pair of transistors is turned on for the next half-cycle of operation. The clamping transistors Q5 and Q6 function as follows. During the aforesaid times when the stored charges are being "dumped" from base 54 of Q1, the bias voltage across resistor 78 renders Q5 conductive and its collector 76 and emitter 77 clamp across base 47 and emitter 26 of Q3 to insure its complete turn-off and preventing it from undesirably becoming conductive or partly conductive in the event of a spurious transient voltage spike in the control signal 42. Q6 functions similarly when stored charges are dumped from base 59 of Q2.
The preferred circuit of the invention, shown in FIG. 3, is a simplified and more economical push-pull inverter than that of FIG. 1, and it employs a single control circuit for controlling both of the push-pull switching transistors Q1 and Q2, thus eliminating two transistors (Q4 and Q6) and transformers 43, 46, and other components required in FIG. 1. The control signal 42' of FIG. 3 has a different waveshape than that of control signal 42 in FIG. 1, as will be described. The circuit components in FIG. 3 which are the same or equivalent to those in FIG. 1, are numbered the same as in FIG. 1.
In FIG. 3, the load 16, including load transformer 21 and load device 19, is shown the same as in FIG. 1. Transistors Q1 and Q3 have their collector-emitter output electrodes connected in series between the end of load winding half 21a and the negative power terminal 12, as in FIG. 1. Transistor Q2 has its collector 31 connected to the end of transformer winding half 21b, and, unlike FIG. 1, has its emitter 32 connected jointly to the collector 24 of transistor Q3 and the emitter 23 of transistor Q1. Diodes D1 and D2, for providing stored-charge current paths, are respectively connected between the base electrodes of transistors Q1 and Q2 and the negative power terminal 12, as in FIG. 1. A clamping transistor Q5 has a collector 76 connected to the base 47 of Q3, and an emitter 77 connected to the negative power terminal 12. Diodes D3, D4 are connected in series opposition between the base electrodes 54, 59 of Q1 and Q2, and a diode D5 and resistor 78 are connected between the junction of diodes D3, D4 and the negative power terminal 12, as shown, the diodes D3, D4 and D5 being oriented with their cathodes toward the terminal 12. The base electrode 79 of transistor Q5 is connected to the junction of diode D5 and resistor 78.
A source 41 of control voltage signal 42' is connected between the base electrode 47 of transistor Q3 and the negative power terminal 12. A resistor 51, diode 52, and resistor 53 are connected in the named order between the base 54 of transistor Q1 and the base 47 of transistor Q3, the cathode of diode 52 being toward base 54. The source 61 of a starting pulse 62 is connected between the junction of diode 52 and resistor 53, and the negative power terminal 12.
The circuit of FIG. 3 functions as follows, with reference to the electrical waveshapes shown in FIG. 4. The switching transistors Q1 and Q2 are rendered conductive alternately and repetitively, and control transistor Q3 is conductive during each conductive period of Q1 and of Q2, as will be described. During the half cycles of operation when Q1 and Q3 are conductive, current flows through the primary winding half 21a, and during the alternate half cycles when Q2 and Q3 are conductive, current flows through the primary winding half 21b, resulting in a continuous series of full cycles of load voltage 71 and lamp current 72 as shown in FIG. 4. The control signal 42' is in the form of square (or rectangular) waveshapes of positive polarity separated by short "off" or low voltage periods 42a' which may be as short as a few microseconds. If the control signal 42' has a cyclic frequency of 40 kHz, the load voltage 71 and current 72 will have a cyclic frequency of 20 kHz.
In starting the circuit operation, the control signal 42' renders the control transistor Q3 repetitively conductive, with short "off" time periods 42a'; however, the switching transistors Q1, Q2 are both nonconductive, due to lack of positive polarity base voltage, until the starting pulse 62 is applied to one of these bases, for example to the base 54 of Q1 injecting current 68 to form a stored charge 69 therein, whereupon Q1 becomes conductive and current flows from terminal 11 through the transformer winding 21a and transistors Q1, Q3 to terminal 12. This current flows until the next "off" period 42a' of control signal 42', whereupon Q3 is turned off for a short moment to interrupt the current flow. While Q3 is thus momentarily off, the voltages at the electrodes of Q1 rise toward the positive potential of terminal 11 and reach the turn-on voltage of diodes D3 and D5, whereby they become conductive and drain or "dump" the stored charge from Q1, through D3, D5, and resistor 78 in parallel with the base-emitter of Q5 as indicated by numeral 74. This dumping current through resistor 78 produces a voltage at the base 79 of clamping transistor Q5 which turns Q5 on so that it clamps Q3 in the off position to prevent it from being turned on by any noise or transient spikes in the control signal 42' during its off period 42a'. The current cessation in winding 21a when Q3 and Q1 are turned off causes an induction voltage "kick" to occur, which is magnetically induced in winding 21b with a negative polarity at collector 31 of Q2 of greater magnitude than that at terminal 12, whereby a pulse of current 66 flows from terminal 12 through diode D2, the base-collector path of Q2, and through winding 21b to the terminal 11, thus forming a stored charge 67 in Q2 for turning it on; at about this time (and before the inductive energy has dissipated) the control signal 42' turns Q3 on again, completing a current path from terminal 11 through winding 21b and Q2, Q3 to terminal 12, thus completing a cycle of alternating voltage 71 and current 72 in the load 16.
Upon the next momentary turn-off 42a' of the control signal 42', Q3 is turned off momentarily, the electrodes of Q2 rise toward the positive potential at terminal 11 and above the turn-on voltage of D4 and D5, and the stored charge in Q2 dumps (numeral 73 in FIG. 4) through the diodes D4, D5 and resistor 78, which renders Q2 in the off condition and turns on the clamping transistor Q5, all as described above for the turning off of Q1. Also, at the same time, the flyback inductive kick in winding 21b induces a voltage pulse in winding 21a which causes a current pulse 68 to flow through the collector-base path of Q1 and diode D1, thus again forming a stored charge 69 in Q1 which keeps it conductive during the next conductive period of Q3, whereupon another cycle of operation commences. Diode D5 may be omitted, and the junction of D3 and D4 connected directly to base 79 of Q5, if diodes D3 and D4 have suitable turn-on voltage characteristics.
The foregoing alternating sequential switching of Q1 and Q2 continues, causing push-pull switching of the load 16, under control of the single control transistor Q3, it being noted that the clamping transistor Q5 is desirable but not mandatory in carrying out the invention.
While preferred embodiments and modifications of the invention have been shown and described, various other embodiments and modifications thereof will become apparent to persons skilled in the art and will fall within the scope of the invention as defined in the following claims.
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Seeing our government and our creditworthiness held hostage to the demands of a right-wing minority is infuriating.
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#1 Oct 10, 2013
Not on the affordable care act it is the law,the GOP are making a lot of demands, why is it that the Dems are not making immigration reform as their demand as well?
#2 Oct 10, 2013
because you dont get to throw a bitch fit when things dont go your way and shut it all down. I wouldnt deal with them either as that would just enable that same juvenile behavior.
Once they choose to act like adults and open up a vote then we would be free to talk. Throw a bitch fit and you can stand over there in the corner and whine about it.
You reap what you sow.
#3 Oct 10, 2013
You know? I suppose that Obama is a law breaker if he is not participating in his own law......
#4 Oct 10, 2013
That makes no sense.
#5 Oct 10, 2013
I'll explain it for you.... responding to the statement "It's the law of the land"..... see! It does make sense.
#6 Oct 10, 2013
I thought you understood the law. I should have known better.
Yes it is the law of the land and will be of great benefit to everybody. Of course the entire purpose of the ACA was to provide affordable insurance to those not covered under an employer sponsored insurance plan. Obama already has employer sponsored insurance so there would be no reason for him to buy a policy from the state exchanges. To say that he is not "participating" is at best meaningless and at worst dishonest.
#7 Oct 10, 2013
No, he has exempted himself from it....what a bozo.
#8 Oct 10, 2013
What does that mean? Do you have insurance now through your employer? If so, you enjoy the exact same status as Obama and 200 million other people who receive their insurance through employer based plans. There sure are a lot of you bozos.
#9 Oct 10, 2013
Why hasn't Obama addressed the incredible rise in Black rapes and murders in America since Obama became President? It is approaching epidemic levels and the only thing he has ever done is increase Black angers without the slightest justification... just insane angers and insane allegations having nothing to do with reality. Obama could calm his people, but he hasn't. He could educate his people, but he hasn't.
#10 Oct 10, 2013
You don't look at yourselves to well. The men and women over the last 6 years who lost half their meager wealth have every right to be angry. Perhaps a bit more juvenile thinking would have helped them a bit. On the other side.. The night of the 2010 elections many of you were screaming and threatening to murder people and get violent in other ways. Your protests border on spreading disease as people acted like pigs. 905 of the vicious crime is by progressives and under reported by the media. This is just some of the juvenile behavior that has been been spread like manure the last few years. Whatever years people have left, the ones who lost their wealth from assinine home mortgage laws and no interest at banks and other government made fiascoes, will blame government that caused it and whatever good will they had with you, is diminished.
#11 Oct 15, 2013
Mah, mah, mah. Anothah clown barrah suppotah thet don't have a single clue bout what clown barrah be all about. Clown barrah don't care nuthin bout any a thet hepin blaicks. Whut clown barrah want ta do is ta keep os blaicks down on the democratic plantation votin democratic. Clown barrah lak to use race and class warfair a lot.
#12 Oct 15, 2013
Clown barrah jus ain't about to give up any of the gov control contained in the unafodable cayah train wreck. Why clown barrah got the IRS checking up on evrah citizen's tax returns and repotin useful info on any citizen back to tha white house. Ya got ta laugh about all thos youth twit clown barrah supportahs reactions to the sticker shock of the unafodablecare exorbitantly high premiums.
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#13 Oct 16, 2013
Since when is balancing a budget, extreme?
#14 Oct 16, 2013
Obama needs to resign! He`s A Joke!
#15 Oct 16, 2013
That's some crazy thinking, right. Obama was running up deficits of over a trillion a year and still crying for more money to spend. That's what I call extreme.
#16 Oct 16, 2013
You call it extreme, but everybody else calls it untrue.
Even Mitch McConnell said today that spending has been reduced at the greatest rates since the Korean War
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#17 Oct 16, 2013
If you believe the government has reduced spending, can you explain why they demand to borrow more money? Doesn't it make more sense to cut spending until they live within their means?
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#18 Oct 16, 2013
Thinking just the opposite.....turn's out those teaparty House republican's should be whipped with a knotted plowline......
#19 Oct 16, 2013
Oh, so now you're a big fan of the idiot, Mitch McConnell. He's one of the problems, like all your radical liberals.
#20 Oct 16, 2013
That's funny. When you think McConnell is a radical liberal then words clearly have no meaning to you.
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Candied Yams and Apples
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- prep 10 min cook 23 min
- serves 6
- 3 medium-size sweet potatoes (1 1/2 pounds total) or 2 cans (18 ounces each) sweet potatoes, drained and cut up
- 2 medium-size tart cooking apples, cored and sliced
- 1/3 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons apple juice
- 1 tablespoon butter or margarine
- 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
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Peel and slice fresh sweet potatoes. In a large saucepan, cover the potatoes with water. Bring to a boil over high heat. Lower the heat and simmer, covered, for 8 to 10 minutes or until potatoes are almost tender. Drain. (Or use canned sweet potatoes.)
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Meanwhile, in a 12-inch skillet, combine the apple slices, brown sugar, apple juice, butter, allspice and nutmeg. Bring to a boil over moderate heat. Lower the heat slightly and cook, uncovered, for 3 to 5 minutes or until apples are almost tender and juice mixture is slightly thickened, stirring occasionally. Gently stir in the sweet potatoes.
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Cook, uncovered, for 5 to 10 minutes more or until apples are tender and sweet potatoes are heated through, spooning the juice mixture over potatoes occasionally.
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Nutritional Information(per serving)
- Calories: "197″
- Calories from Fat: ""
- Fat: "2g"
- Saturated Fat: "1g"
- Cholesterol: "5mg"
- Sodium: "38mg"
- Carbs: "43g"
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- Protein: "2g"
- Fiber: "XX4g
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