Abstract: A magnetic motor comprising a timing controller and at least one cylinder having a piston, an upper cylinder head, and a lower cylinder head is disclosed. The piston, upper cylinder head, and lower cylinder head each include a set of one or more magnets characterized by a common pattern. The one or more magnets in the piston, the upper cylinder head, and lower cylinder head comprise poles oriented parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cylinder. The piston oscillates linearly in the cylinder but does not rotate, while the upper and lower cylinder heads rotate in place but do not move linearly. The timing controller is configured to vary the phase between longitudinal oscillation of the piston and angular oscillation of the upper and lower cylinder heads to optimally drive the piston up and down in the cylinder.

Abstract: A stator that includes a stator core including a plurality of teeth with a slot in between; a plurality of coils each formed of a conductor, each of the coils including: an accommodated portion accommodated in the corresponding slot, a coil end disposed on an outer side of an end face of the stator core, and a lead wire protruding from the accommodated portion and extending radially outward of the stator core; and a connector connected to ends of the lead wires of the coils.

Abstract: An operating voltage switching device includes a first current mirror circuit generating a corresponding sensing current according to an input current; a comparator comparing a reference voltage with a voltage at a node of the first current mirror circuit to generate a comparison signal; a first power domain providing a first output current to an internal circuit according to the sensing current; a second power domain providing a second output current to the internal circuit according to the sensing current; and a power domain selecting circuit, which is coupled to the comparator, the first power domain and the second power domain, and selects to enable the first power domain or the second power domain according to the comparison signal; wherein the sensing current is not greater than the input current.

Abstract: A real-time slope control apparatus includes power-train transistors coupled between a power terminal and an output node and turned on in response to an error signal, a voltage regulator, a comparator configured to compare whether the feedback voltage and a sub-reference voltage match each other, pull-up transistors coupled between the power terminal and the output node and sequentially turned on in response to first control signals corresponding to a comparison result value of the comparator, and pull-down transistors coupled between the output node and the ground terminal and sequentially turned on in response to second control signals corresponding to the comparison result value of the comparator.

Abstract: A multi-level switching converter and a method which converts an input voltage provided at an input node to an output voltage provided at an output node is described. The multi-level switching converter has a first converter branch with a first set of switches and a first flying capacitor, and a second converter branch with a second set of switches and a second flying capacitor. Furthermore, the switching converter has a joint inductor for the first and second converter branch, and control circuitry. The control circuitry controls the first and second set of switches to set the output voltage in accordance to a reference voltage, and by doing so it provides a robust regulation of the capacitor voltages across the first and second flying capacitors.

Abstract: A power conversion device may include: a microcomputer; and an output circuit controlled by the microcomputer, including an output unit that converts an input power into a predetermined power and outputs the predetermined power, an internal power source that supplies a power source to the microcomputer, a driver that drives the output unit by a signal from the microcomputer, and a microcomputer stop transition unit that, when an operation of the power conversion device is stopped, outputs a microcomputer stop signal to the microcomputer and causes an operation of the microcomputer to transition to a stop state. In one or more embodiments, after the microcomputer stop transition unit causes the operation of the microcomputer to transition to a stop state, the microcomputer or the output circuit may stop an output of the internal power source.

Abstract: A boosting operation of a converter and the intermittent energization operation of an inverter are optimally performed in accordant with input or output. The power converter includes the converter capable of boosting a DC voltage outputted by switching operation alternately performing shorting and rectification; the inverter; an inverter capable of performing intermittent energization in which switching around zero cross of a motor current is turned off upon converting the DC voltage outputted by the converter into three-phase AC power; and a controller that controls the converter to perform boosting operation and the inverter to perform the boosting operation of the converter and the intermittent energization operation of the inverter linkingly.

Abstract: Provided is a reactor in which it is possible to reduce molding failures in inner resin portions when molding the inner resin portions. A reactor includes: a coil having winding portions; and a magnetic core having inner core portions and outer core portions. The reactor further includes: inner resin portions that fill gaps between the winding portions and the inner core portions; and inner interposed members that are interposed between the winding portions and the inner core portions, and form resin flow paths. The inner interposed members have spacers arranged between the winding portions and the inner core portions. The spacers are provided with air discharge paths that are in communication with the resin flow paths, and extend in the axial direction of the winding portions to at least one end face side of the winding portions.

Abstract: An electric circuit arrangement and a method for generating electric current pulses to a load, the electric circuit arrangement including a switch and a current source in series connection with the load; wherein the switch is arranged to operate in at least an on state and an off state, thereby selectively connecting or disconnecting the current source to or from the load so as to generate the electric current pulses. With such architecture, the circuit performs with a better efficiency than a cascaded architecture.

Abstract: A method for pulse-frequency modulation efficiency optimization, for fast load transient response, in a DC-DC switching converter, is disclosed. The method provides for dynamic blanking, of the under voltage comparator, while maintaining the maximum switching frequency in pulse-frequency mode. The optimization becomes more relevant with the reduction of the regulated output voltage. A further object of the disclosure is to increase the power conversion efficiency of pulse-frequency mode (PFM) by increasing the Load Bursting Point (LBP), maintaining compatibility with the fast load transient response of current DC-DC switching converter architectures.

Abstract: The power conversion device may include a rectification unit, a boost converter for boosting power rectified from the rectification unit, a dc-end capacitor connected to an output end of the boost converter, an inductor current detection unit for detecting an inductor current flowing in an inductor within the boost converter, a dc-end voltage detection unit for detecting voltages of both ends of the dc-end capacitor, and a control unit for controlling the boost converter. The control unit may generate and output a converter switching control signal by performing proportional resonant control for a duty command value of a switching element within the boost converter, based on the detected inductor current and dc-end voltage. Therefore, a harmonic current component flowing through a dc-end capacitor induced by a ripple component of an input voltage may be reduced.

Abstract: An electromechanical converter for automatically adjusting driving torque from an engine of a vehicle comprises a rotor, a stator, and a set of windings. The set of windings comprises main windings, subsidiary windings, and auxiliary windings. The rotor is housed within a stator, comprises a pole. A hub of the stator shaft is engaged to auxiliary stator and transfers energy from the engine to output. Each coil of the main and subsidiary windings is wound on each pole. Each coil of the auxiliary windings is wound between poles. The stator is separated from the rotor by gap. An output shaft is connected to auxiliary stator and it is engaged to the stator shaft. The comparative rotating of the rotor and stator creates current at the windings of the rotor and the stator.

Abstract: A switch controls current to be supplied to an inductive load when turned on. A clamp circuit clamps a flyback voltage resulting from turning off the switch. The clamp circuit has a first clamping voltage responsive to the switch being turned off, and has a second clamping voltage, higher than the first clamping voltage, responsive to a current level through the inductive load being lower than a predetermined current level. That ensures that as the current comes down to levels required to break contact, the clamp voltage is increased to speed the collapse of the magnetic field when needed to minimize contact wear by maintaining armature momentum.

Abstract: Provided is a premagnetization device for a converter system that is connectable to a three-phase electrical grid that has a three-phase power transformer, a converter connected to the power transformer and a circuit-breaker on the grid side of the power transformer. The premagnetization device is premagnetizes the power transformer in a state isolated from the grid. The premagnetization device uses a single-phase reference voltage (Uref) that has a fixed relationship to the grid voltage (Ugrid) with regard to the voltage parameters, in order to generate, based on the measured instantaneous reference voltage (Uref) and the known fixed parameter relationships, by actuating the converter, a three-phase alternating voltage synchronous to the grid voltage (Ugrid) on the grid side of the power transformer.

Abstract: A power converter includes an input node that receives an input voltage and a control loop that regulates an output voltage of the power converter. The power converter also includes a comparison voltage generation circuit that generates a comparison voltage based on an operating point of the power converter. The power converter also includes a first comparator that compares a control loop voltage in the control loop with the comparison voltage and generates a control signal. The power converter also includes a mode control circuit that transitions the power converter from the low power operating mode to a first operating mode using the control signal. The output voltage is regulated in both the first operating mode and the low power operating mode.

Abstract: A dynamic current sink includes the following elements. A voltage comparator compares a reference voltage with a second control signal from an LDO (Low Dropout Linear Regulator) to generate a first control signal. A first transistor selectively pulls down a voltage at a first node according to the first control signal. The inverter is coupled between the first node and a second node. An NAND gate has a first input terminal coupled to a second transistor and a third node, a second input terminal coupled to the second node, and an output terminal coupled to a fourth node. A capacitor is coupled between the fourth node and a fifth node. A resistor is coupled between the fifth node and a ground voltage. A third transistor has a control terminal coupled to the fifth node, and selectively draws a discharge current from an output node of the LDO.

Abstract: A power generating device including an element and a moving member. The element is deformable and generates power when deforming. The moving member moves when receiving a vibration, and contacts the element when moving. When the moving member contacts the element, the element deforms into another state or returns to a previous state.

Abstract: A half-bridge power converter includes a transformer dividing the half-bridge power converter into a primary side and a secondary side. Disposed on the first side is a first capacitor bank and a second capacitor bank in series with the first capacitor hank, and also a bootstrap capacitor configured to be charged by current flowing through a charging current flowpath. The charging current flowpath extends at least through a pre-charging circuit located on the primary side, the pre-charging circuit being configured to reduce a voltage imbalance between the first capacitor bank and the second capacitor bank. The half-bridge power converter also includes a discharging current flowpath that extends at least through a primary winding of the transformer and the pre-charging circuit.

Abstract: A pump is provided with a motor arranged in a stator case, wherein a junction box is arranged at one axial end of the stator case, the junction box is provided with a tubular shell component, the first axial end of the tubular shell component is placed at the axial end of the stator case, the opposite second axial end of the tubular shell component is sealed through at least one cover piece, an operation display circuit board and a motor driving circuit board are arranged in the tubular shell component. The tubular shell component and the containing box are not provided with conductive contact pins.

Abstract: A power converter includes primary and secondary bridges, a transformer, and a controller configured to generate a switching mode map that correlates each of a plurality of switching modes to a respective set of value ranges of system parameters of the power converter. The sets of system parameter value ranges are contiguous and non-overlapping across the switching mode map, each of the plurality of switching modes includes gate trigger voltage timings for commuting at least one of the primary and secondary bridges. The controller is configured to obtain a plurality of measured system parameter values, select from the switching mode map one of the plurality of switching modes that correlates to the set of system parameter values containing the plurality of measured system parameter values, and adjust gate trigger voltage timings of at least one of the primary and secondary bridges, according to the selected switching mode.