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7619910 Interleaved soft switching bridge power converter  
An interleaved soft switching bridge power converter comprises switching poles operated in an interleaved manner so as to substantially reduce turn-on switching losses and diode reverse-recovery...
7616466 Three phase inverter with improved loss distribution  
An inverter circuit couples a DC voltage source having a primary side and a reference side to an electric motor or other AC machine having multiple electrical phases. An inverter circuit includes...
7615979 Flexible power converter and simplified process controller  
Flexible power converter and simplified process controller capable of being configured for a variety of applications with minimal effort. The power converter has a plurality of power switches that...
7613016 Power and information signal transfer using micro-transformers  
A power converter provides power across an isolation barrier, such as through the use of coils. A coil driver has transistors connected in a positive feedback configuration and is coupled to a...
7609532 Phase-shifted PWM bridge with switchable inductors to maintain zero-voltage switching at light load  
A dc-to-dc pulse-width-modulated phase-shifted full bridge defines two taps, and the bridge switches are operated to produce alternating voltage between the taps. A switchable inductor is connected...
7602621 Half bridge converter  
A half bridge converter having a pulse width control unit, a level regulating unit, a half bridge switch unit, an electricity converting unit and a feedback unit is disclosed. The level regulating...
7599202 DC-AC converter with feedback signal control circuit utilizing power supply voltage, controller IC therefor, and electronic apparatus utilizing the DC-AC converter  
An inverter controls the power supplied to a load such as a CCFL connected to a secondary winding of a transformer by means of pulse width modulation (PWM) control of the switches of a...
7599177 Video dock for portable media player  
A docking station for a portable media player. The docking station includes a docking connector to physically secure the portable media player and a communication interface to communicatively...
7589987 DC-to-DC converter with improved transient response  
A DC to DC converter includes a comparator, a driver, and a pair of switches. The comparator compares the output voltage with a reference voltage signal and generates a PWM signal. The driver...
7589986 Single stage integrated boost inverter motor drive circuit  
An integrated boost inverter circuit including at least one inverter stage having series connected high- and low-side switches having a common node. Each switch having an anti-parallel connected...
7589981 DC-AC converter and method of supplying AC power  
A dc-ac converter capable of supplying a finely regulated ac drive voltage to a load is provided. For this purpose, the converter includes, in a primary winding of a transformer, a full-bridge or...
7589980 DC-DC converter  
In a DC-DC converter of the present invention, a converting circuit converts a DC-DC voltage outputted from a DC power supply into an AC voltage, and to output to a series circuit in which a...
7589481 Control device integrated dynamo-electric machine  
In order to improve reliability, cost performance, and cooling property, a control device integrated dynamo-electric machine mounted to a dynamo-electric machine includes an inverter bridge...
7586768 Electric power conversion apparatus for plural DC voltage sources and an AC electrical load  
An electric power conversion apparatus includes a power converter connected to at least a first DC voltage source, a second DC voltage source and an AC electric motor. A control unit controls the...
7586766 Plasma arc power supply and control method for same  
Energy loss due to driving a plurality of power supply units simultaneously in a low-current region is prevented, and a more stable load current is obtained. The generation of a load current in a...
7586763 Electric power converter circuit  
An electric power converter circuit includes a rectifying circuit having diodes, a coil, and a full-bridge circuit including switching devices, which are connected in cascade to an AC power supply ...
7583523 Three phase inverter control circuit detecting two phase currents and deducting or adding identical ON periods  
A small and highly vibration-proof inverter capable of detecting a phase current without requiring the development of complicated control software and without causing any current distortion is...
7577005 Method for recognizing the load of an island inverter and island inverter  
The invention relates to a method for recognizing the operational state of a load ( 10 ) connected to the output ( 6, 7 ) of an island inverter ( 1 ). A load recognition signal (S L ) is applied at...
7567053 Mechatronic integration of motor drive and E-machine, especially smart-E-motor  
The power switches of an inverter are mechanically integrated with an electric motor of a vehicle and are mounted on the end plate of the motor and employ short connections between the motor a-c...
7564706 Power factor corrected single-phase AC-DC power converter using natural modulation  
A power factor corrected (pfc) ac-dc converter has a modified boost input and a modified buck output. Unlike the prior art boost input, the boost switch returns to the output, not to ground. Unlike...
7564700 Power supply system and apparatus  
The present invention relates to a switched mode power supply with programmable digital control and to a power supply system comprising a plurality of switched mode power supplies. The input...
7561453 Method for operating an inverter and arrangement for executing the method  
There is described a method for operating an electronically controlled inverter. The inverter is controlled during the positive half-wave of the output alternating voltage in such a way that it...
7561451 Power converter apparatus and methods using a phase reference derived from a DC bus voltage  
In a power converter apparatus, such as an uninterruptible power supply, a phase reference signal is generated responsive to a DC voltage on a DC bus. A magnitude reference signal may be generated...
7558080 Power converter system  
A power converter system including an LC oscillator circuit, an oscillator drive circuit for driving the LC oscillator circuit, a rectifier circuit coupled to the LC oscillator circuit for...
7548439 Electric power converter for reducing generated high frequency components  
By reduction in loss and noise of a three-phase reactor on the AC side of an electric power converter, compactness and reduction in weight of the reactor are realized, and countermeasures for heat...
7548435 Zero-voltage-switching DC-DC converters with synchronous rectifiers  
A DC-DC converter includes an inductor, a synchronous rectifier (SR) connected to the inductor, and an active switch connected to the inductor and the SR. An active resonant tank (ART) cell is...
7548029 Bi-directional current sensing by monitoring VS voltage in a half or full bridge circuit  
An apparatus and method for determining the output current in a bridge-connected switched transistor output circuit including high-side and low-side transistor switches, typically MOSFETS. The...
7548028 Current-mode resonant inverter circuit  
A high conversion efficiency inverter circuit by providing the current-mode resonant type efficient in using a power source. A current-mode resonant inverter circuit comprises a step-up...
7542312 Electric power converter  
By reduction in loss and noise of a three-phase reactor on the AC side of an electric power converter, compactness and reduction in weight of the reactor are realized, and countermeasures for heat...
7542311 Method for operating a converter circuit, and device for carrying out the method  
A method for operating a converter circuit is specified with the converter circuit having a converter unit with a multiplicity of controllable power semiconductor switches and having an energy...
7535740 Electronic apparatus and power circuit having reduced switching loss  
An electronic apparatus having a load including: a power supply unit supplying a driving voltage to the load; an inverter unit switching the driving voltage; and a control voltage supply unit...
7531970 Power source driving circuits and controllers thereof  
A controller for a driving circuit of power source comprises a frequency generator, a pulse width modulator, and a driving device. The frequency generator comprises a latch circuit. The frequency...
7529111 Drive controller for a self-commutated converter  
A drive controller for a self-commutated converter providing a “safe stop” is described. The converter has two half-bridges, and the drive controller includes two control circuits having...
7529108 Full-bridge digital power converter controller and method to compensate volt-second imbalance  
A digital controller for use with a full-bridge power converter which includes an isolation transformer that conducts first and second currents of opposite polarity during respective power-transfer...
7525820 Inverter  
Primary and secondary regions are electrically insulated from each other. The first and second pulse transformers are provided to the respective transistors in the switching circuit. Secondary...
7525293 Power supply switching circuit for a halogen lamp  
A power supply and methods are provided. In one implementation, the power supply includes a switching circuit and a converter. The switching circuit includes a first transistor and a second...
7508689 Inverter and a drive system using the inverter  
A inverter has a switching device for switching DC to change it to AC, and a bipolar type rechargeable battery connected to the switching device in parallel or in series for smoothing the current...
7505293 Device and method for controlling electric power converter  
The control device of an electric power converter comprises a control device controlling turn-on of semi-conductor legs. The converter comprises DC voltage power supply lines on three levels with...
7505292 Device and method for controlling an electric power converter  
The control device of an electric power converter comprises a control device controlling turn-on of semi-conductor legs. The converter comprises DC voltage supply lines, an inverter connected...
7502243 DC/AC inverter with adjustable gate-source voltage  
The present invention is a DC/AC inverter for converting a DC supply voltage signal to an AC voltage signal. The DC/AC inverter includes a drive circuit, a switch circuit, a transformer circuit and...
7499296 Electric power converter device with control means and process and converting power  
An electric power converter with a control device that comprises a processing unit receives control signals and sends modulated signals to inverter stages of the electric power converter. The...
7499291 DC power transmission system of voltage source converter using pulse-interleaving auxiliary circuit  
A DC power transmission system of a voltage source converter using a pulse-interleaving auxiliary circuit is disclosed. The converter system comprises an IGBT converter for converting an AC power...
7495933 Resonance transducer  
There is provided a resonance transducer including a main bridge linked with an input signal. The resonance transducer includes a transformer assembly across which an output signal can be tapped, a...
7492119 Circuit arrangement for generating motor characteristic curves  
A circuit arrangement ( 1 ) for generating motor characteristic curves, in particular for stabilizing the pull-out torque of a two-phase synchronous motor ( 2 ) by using a series-connected element...
7489527 DC transformer with an output inductance integrated on a magnetic core thereof and a DC/DC converter employing the same  
A DC/DC converter includes an input filter, a half-bridge converter without PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) control function, a synchronous rectifier, an output capacitor, and a DC transformer. The DC...
7489526 Power and information signal transfer using micro-transformers  
A power converter provides power across an isolation barrier, such as through the use of coils. A coil driver has transistors connected in a positive feedback configuration and is coupled to a...
7483279 Apparatus and method for detecting phase currents of inverter  
The present invention previously sets a threshold voltage, compares the set threshold voltage with a reference voltage, and judges whether a minimal pulse width of a PWM signal is obtained. When a...
7480161 Control apparatus for semiconductor power converter  
A control apparatus for controlling a three- or single-phase semiconductor power converter employing fixed-pulse switching patterns superposes a DC component on an AC output voltage, to suppress...
7480155 Digital generator of phase shift modulation  
A digital generator of phase shift modulation receives two binary coded numbers (F) and (P), that represent a requested frequency value and a requested phase value, respectively, and generates two...
7479774 High-performance solar photovoltaic (PV) energy conversion system  
The present invention focuses on the development of a high-performance solar photovoltaic (PV) energy conversion system. The power circuit of the invention is made of a two-stage circuit,...