Patents Assigned to DRS Consolidated Controls, Inc.
  • Patent number: 9698700
    Abstract: A power converter can be controlled to generate a target output power. The control process may include obtaining a target current reference for the power converter, sensing an output current of the power converter, and determining a difference between the target current reference and the sensed output current. The next switching duty cycle for the next switching period of the switching circuits in the power converter can be derived based on at least the present switching duty cycle of the present switching period, and the difference between the target current reference and the sensed output current. The switching circuits of the power converter can then be switched according to the derived next switching duty cycle in the next switching period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignees: DRS Consolidated Controls, Inc., University of Connecticut
    Inventors: Scott Ramsay, Michael Kelley, Matthew Tarca, John Thompson, David Gellis, Thomas Parsons, Sung Yeul Park, Sungmin Park
  • Patent number: 9621063
    Abstract: A power converter can be controlled to generate a target output power based on a reactive power reference and an active power reference. The control process may include monitoring a time-varying power signal (e.g., a power grid voltage signal from a power grid), and filtering the time-varying power signal to derive a filtered sine component of the time-varying power signal and a filtered cosine component of the time-varying power signal. A sine coefficient and cosine coefficient each based on at least the reactive power reference and the active power reference can be determined, and applied to the filtered sine component and filtered cosine component of the time-varying power signal, respectively. A target current reference of the power converter can then be set to include a sum of the current reference sine component and the current reference cosine component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: DRS Consolidated Controls, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Ramsay, Michael Kelley, Matthew Tarca, John Thompson, David Gellis, Thomas Parsons, Sung Yeul Park, Sungmin Park