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US20130094261 Photovoltaic Power Converters  
Photovoltaic power converter systems and methods are described. In one example, a method for use in operating a solar power converter includes sampling a DC link voltage of a DC link during a first...
US20120044728 ELECTRIC POWER CONVERTER  
In aspects of the invention, first and second series circuits of switching devices and a series circuit of capacitors are connected in parallel. Between the connection point in the first series...
US20130063991 VOLTAGE CONVERTER CONFIGURATIONS FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEM APPLICATIONS  
A system includes a low switching frequency power converter configured to be coupled to a solar cell, wherein the low switching frequency power converter is configured to generate alternating...
US20120243278 Power Module and Circuit Board Assembly Thereof  
A power module includes a first bobbin, a primary winding coil, a circuit board assembly and a first magnetic core assembly. The primary winding coil is wound around the first bobbin. The circuit...
US20100085786 CONVERTIBLE CHARGE-PUMP CIRCUIT  
A convertible charge-pump circuit includes: a charging circuit having a plurality of charging capacitors and a pumping circuit having an output port coupled to a pumping capacitor. The charging...
US20080175024 Power converter with isolated and regulation stages  
In a power converter, the duty cycle of a primary winding circuit causes near continuous flow of power through the primary and secondary winding circuits during normal operation. By providing no...
US20110216567 Single switch inverter  
A novel concept of converting a DC input to an AC output with a single active switch is disclosed. A series of topologies are developed to support the needs of different applications. Particular...
US20120262955 CONVERTER WITH INPUT VOLTAGE BALANCE CIRCUIT  
In one aspect of the present invention, a converter circuit with input voltage balance includes a plurality of modules having inputs electrically series-connected to each other and outputs...
US20120256685 Power Supply with Tickle Pulse Injection  
A power supply injects a series of “tickle” pulses into a pulse width modulated (PWM) controller to induce the controller to generate PWM pulses at a minimum switching frequency, preferably one tha...
US20120175955 SMART MICROGRID RECONFIGURABLE AC INTERFACE  
Presented is a system and method for providing reconfigurable AC interfaces for AC power systems. The method comprises embedding a reconfigurable AC interface for transferring power between power...
US20120039095 BOOST CONVERTER  
There is provided a boost converter capable of reducing internal pressure in elements without the employment of a separate snubber by clamping a voltage, transmitted to the elements, to a charging...
US20050237010 Architecture of power supply system for LCD apparatus  
The proposed architecture includes a Dual Boost PFC circuit for receiving the AC input voltage and generating the DC bus voltage, at least one inverter coupled to the Dual Boost PFC circuit for...
US20120020463 COMPACT, LOW NOISE POWER SUPPLY FOR ADVANCED ELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS, AND X-RAY ANALYZER APPLICATIONS THEREOF  
A shielded, low-noise, high-voltage power supply having a plurality of voltage multipliers, each having a toroidal transformer, and collectively producing a high DC output voltage from an AC...
US20100054001 AC/DC Converter with Power Factor Correction  
A power converter is configured for usage in a power factor correction system. The power converter comprises a transformer with a primary winding and a secondary winding which isolates a primary...
US20090080228 INDUSTRIAL TRUCK WITH A CHARGER  
Industrial truck with a charger, an asynchronous machine and a three-phase AC control unit which converts a DC voltage of a battery for the asynchronous machine, the charger having a switching...
US20110103102 VOLTAGE CONVERTER WITH HIGH EFFICIENCY  
A voltage converter transmits energy in multiple stages using a charge pump so as to decrease the voltage rating of the secondary side of the transformer and reduce the size of the transformer....
US20110122655 POWER SUPPLY WITH AC/DC CONVERTER AND DC/AC INVERTER IN LOOP  
A power supply includes a DC/AC inverter and an AC/DC converter connected in a loop such that a DC output of the AC/DC converter is connected to a DC input of the DC/AC inverter and an AC output of...
US20080198635 Pulse width modulated ground/return for powered device  
A new pulse width modulation return scheme in which the source of PWM FET is directly connected to the 48 Volt return and therefore Ids of PWM FET does not pass through the hot-swap FET which...
US20130076151 PHOTOVOLTAIC GENERATION SYSTEM USING PARALLEL INVERTER CONNECTED GRID  
A photovoltaic generation system using grid-connected parallel inverters comprises a plurality of photovoltaic generation devices connected in parallel with each other, and a transformer configured...
US20110141773 HVDC CONNECTION OF WIND TURBINE  
A method and apparatus for connection of a wind driven turbine generator to an HVDC transmission line is provided that does not require transformation of the wind generated AC voltage to a nominal...
US20120327691 SWITCHED MODE POWER SUPPLY  
A power supply has over power protection based on the same signal as used by the feedback path for controlling the switching of the power supply. This means that no additional signal needs to be...
US20080304293 Converter controller  
A converter controller is disclosed. In one embodiment, a controller for a flyback converter includes a converter and a flyback controller. The converter is coupled to the flyback converter for...
US20120092912 COMMUTATION METHOD OF AN ELECTRONIC POWER CONVERTER PHASE WITH REVERSE-CONDUCTING IGBTS  
The invention relates to a method for commutating from a reverse-conducting IGBT (T1) operated in the diode mode to a reverse-conducting IGBT (T2) operated in the IGBT mode. According to the...
US20100165684 POWER ADAPTER  
A power adapter to receive at least one AC input power and transform to DC primary output power includes a power factor correction circuit to receive the AC input power and modulate to become a...
US20110267863 TRANSFORMERLESS INVERTER COMPRISING A DC/DC CONVERTER  
A transformerless inverter that serves to feed electricity from a DC current source into an AC power grid, has an inverter bridge and a DC/DC converter connected upstream of the inverter bridge....
US20070183177 Traction converter having a line-side four-quadrant controller, and method therefor  
A traction current converter includes a line-side four-quadrant converter which is provided with turn-off power semiconductors that are implemented as current converter valves. Each of the power...
US20120268976 THREE-PHASE RECTIFIER CIRCUIT  
In one aspect of the invention, a three-phase rectifier circuit having three input terminals and two output terminals includes a three-phase diode bridge, three switching circuits, and a voltage...
US20110103099 SWITCHING CONTROL METHOD OF TRANSFORMER COUPLED BOOSTER  
Provided is a switching control method of a transformer coupled booster to suppress an increase in energizing current in a transformer of the transformer coupled booster and downsize the...
US20120212983 METHOD FOR CONVERTING POWER FOR A HIGH-VOLTAGE DIRECT VOLTAGE CONNECTION  
A method for converting a multi-phase alternating voltage into a high-voltage direct voltage and then into a second multi-phase alternating voltage. The method utilizes first and second cascades of...
US20060013024 Rectifier circuit having a power factor correction  
A rectifier circuit having a power factor correction and providing a DC output is disclosed. AC power having an AC oscillation is supplied at two or more AC inputs. The rectifier circuit includes...
US20120170325 High Efficiency Solar Wind Inverter With Hybrid DCDC Converter  
The present invention is a new design topology for solar/wind inverters using a new hybrid DC/DC converter design. This hybrid converter topology eliminates a difficult design compromise between...
US20120014146 POWER-DEPENDANT MAINS UNDER-VOLTAGE PROTECTION  
A method and controller for power dependant mains under-voltage (“brown-out”) protection is disclosed. Brown-out protection is meant for protection against overheating due to low mains voltage and...
US20110228566 Series resonant converter with overload delay and short-circuit protection mechanisms  
The present invention is to provide a series resonant converter with an overload delay and short-circuit protection mechanism, which includes a voltage sensing circuit for sensing a voltage ripple...
US20120281441 CIRCUIT FOR CONVERTING A DIRECT CURRENT VOLTAGE TO AN ALTERNATING CURRENT VOLTAGE  
A circuit for converting a direct current voltage into an alternating current voltage includes a buck converter, a resonant DC voltage/DC voltage converter, a DC voltage/AC voltage inverter, and a...
US20110080758 PLANT FOR TRANSMITTING ELECTRIC POWER  
A plant for transmitting electric power comprises a direct voltage network for High Voltage Direct Current and at least one alternating voltage network connected thereto through a station. The...
US20070127276 Power supply and display  
A power supply capable of making soft start efficiently. A power supply (10) is such that the time lag from the soft start trigger representing the start of soft start control to the actual soft...
US20120008347 METHOD FOR OPERATING A DC/DC CONVERTER CIRCUIT CONFIGURATION AND DC/DC CONVERTER CIRCUIT CONFIGURATION  
A DC/DC converter circuit configuration contains a rectifier configuration, an inductance and at least one circuit breaker for switching the inductance on its input side. When controlling the...
US20130121032 POWER SUPPLY REGULATION FOR ULTRA-LOW LOAD AND NO-LOAD OPERATION  
A controller of a switching power converter employs a dynamically adaptive power supply regulation approach that improves low-load and no-load regulation to achieve ultra-low standby power in a...
US20110038191 RECTIFIER CIRCUIT AND RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE USING THE SAME  
A rectifier circuit includes an input terminal that receives an alternating-current signal, a first rectifier circuit that generates a first direct-current voltage from the alternating-current...
US20110013440 RECTIFIER CIRCUIT  
Switches perform switching at a timing when a first phase voltage and a second phase voltage outputted from a three-phase voltage source have a phase difference of 90°. Then, a ...
US20110116291 HIGH EFFICIENCY MULTI-PHASE GENERATOR  
A generator system that includes a six-phase AC machine and an active rectifier bridge employing low on-resistance switches, such as MOSFET switches, for converting the AC current from the machine...
US20110267851 CONVERTER CIRCUIT WITH ADJUSTABLE DC BUS VOLTAGE  
A method for controlling voltage of a DC bus in a converter circuit is provided. The method includes monitoring a duty cycle of a switch that connects a resistive circuit across the DC bus, the...
US20090257260 ANALOG INPUT DEVICE  
An analog input device according to the present invention includes a scanning circuit (3) including a first insulation transformer (T1) for insulating an analog signal inputted from a thermocouple...
US20120113688 Interleaved flyback converter device with leakage energy recycling  
An interleaved flyback converter device with leakage energy recycling includes: two flyback converters and an input power. Each flyback converter includes a capacitor, a switch, two diodes, and a...
US20100080027 INTEGRATED AIRCRAFT POWER CONDITIONING UNIT  
An integrated power conditioning unit includes a DC bus, a first terminal for connection to first AC equipment, a second terminal for connection to second AC equipment, a first inverter circuit...
US20100302812 ADAPTER POWER SUPPLY  
The present invention relates to an adapter power supply, which includes a switching unit for switching a DC voltage; a transformer which has a primary winding connected to the switching unit, a...
US20110317450 AC-TO-DC POWER CONVERTING DEVICE  
An AC-to-DC power converting device includes: a filter for filtering an external AC input voltage; a rectifier for rectifying the AC input voltage filtered by the filter to output a rectified...
US20080310195 Bidirectional DC to DC Converter for Power Storage Control in a Power Scavenging Application  
A bidirectional DC to DC converter having a first operational mode and a second operational mode includes a first terminal pair that has a positive terminal and a negative terminal and that...
US20110286247 SENSING ARRANGEMENTS  
A sensing arrangement and method a sense winding is used to provide a voltage which represents the voltage appearing across an in-circuit magnetic component. In a flyback phase, when the component...
US20100309689 Bootstrap Circuitry  
This invention generally relates to a bootstrap circuit for a switch mode power supply, a controller for a switch mode voltage converter, a switch mode flyback converter comprising the bootstrap...