Patents Examined by A. Berhane
  • Patent number: 11996773
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for regulating a power conversion system. An example system controller includes: a detection component configured to receive an input voltage related to a diode connected to an inductor and output a first signal at a first logic level in response to the input voltage being larger than a predetermined threshold, a control logic component configured to receive the first signal, process information associated with the first signal, and output a modulation signal related to a modulation frequency in response to the first signal being at the first logic level, and a driving component configured to receive the modulation signal and output a drive signal to open and close a first switch at the modulation frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Guangzhou On-Bright Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lieyi Fang
  • Patent number: 11996779
    Abstract: Systems and methods for voltage compensation based on load conditions in power converters. For example, a system controller for regulating a power converter includes a first controller terminal; a second controller terminal; and a compensation current generator. The compensation current generator is configured to receive an input signal through the first controller terminal. The input signal indicates a first current flowing through a primary winding of a power converter. The compensation current generator is configured to receive a demagnetization signal related to a demagnetization period of the power converter and associated with an auxiliary winding of the power converter. The compensation current generator is configured to generate a compensation current based at least in part on the input signal and the demagnetization signal. The compensation current generator is connected to a resistor. The resistor is configured to generate a compensation voltage based at least in part on the compensation current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: On-Bright Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wuping Lin, Yunchao Zhang, Jianfeng Huang, Lieyi Fang
  • Patent number: 11994369
    Abstract: A payload conducted electrical weapon (“CEW”) may include a housing configured to house at least a plurality of electrodes and a signal generator. The payload CEW may be removably inserted into a bay of a launcher. The launcher may be mounted on a vehicle. The plurality of electrodes may be configured to be launched from the housing. The housing may be configured to be launched from the bay of the launcher simultaneously with or after the plurality of electrodes are launched. The signal generator may be configured to transmit a stimulus signal through the plurality of electrodes. The signal generator may be configured to transmit the stimulus signal before, during, and/or after the housing is launched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Axon Enterprise, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick W. Smith, Magne Nerheim, Brandy Shaffer, Gabriel Othman, Matthew Carver, Brian Slaughter, Brian Fairbanks, Mark Eastwood, Jackson Dewitt, Oleg Nemtyshkin
  • Patent number: 11990850
    Abstract: According to at least one aspect of the disclosure, an inverter is provided comprising an input configured to receive input DC power from a DC source, an output configured to provide output AC power to a load, a plurality of DC rails coupled to the input and configured to receive the input DC power from the DC source, a plurality of switches coupled between the plurality of DC rails and configured to convert the input DC power into the output AC power, each switch of the plurality of switches having a parasitic capacitance, and at least one ZVS network coupled across at least two switches of the plurality of switches, the ZVS network including at least two inductors configured to resonate with the parasitic capacitance of at least one switch of the plurality of switches to provide soft switching of at least one switch of the plurality of switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Indra Prakash, Damir Klikic, Chandrasekaran Jayaraman
  • Patent number: 11990790
    Abstract: A microgrid includes a power system configured to output system power and an automatic transfer switch (ATS). The ATS includes a normal terminal that is electrically connected to a grid power line configured to receive grid power from a power utility, an emergency terminal that is electrically connected to a system power line configured to receive system power from the power system, and a load terminal that is electrically connected to a critical load line configured to provide power to a critical load. The microgrid also includes a bypass line electrically connected to the system power line and the critical load line, so as to bypass the ATS, and a circuit breaker configured to control power flow through the bypass line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Prasad Pmsvvsv, Mehdi Ebad, Ranganathan Gurunathan, Vishal Anand Gopalakrishnan, Jayanth Moodliar, Saravana Narayanasamy, Rakesh Kumar Roy, Deepak Balakrishnan
  • Patent number: 11990842
    Abstract: A multi-phase LLC power converter comprises a plurality of LLC phases each including a resonant tank and a switching stage. The resonant tank includes a resonant inductor, a resonant capacitor, and a parallel inductance. The switching stage switches an input power at an operating frequency to apply a switched power to the resonant tank, with the switched power approximating an alternating current (AC) waveform having a switching frequency. A secondary-side controller varies the switching frequency to control an output voltage of the multi-phase LLC power converter. A primary-side controller measures primary-side currents, calculates an initial switch-controlled capacitor (SCC) conduction phase angle for each of the LLC phases, and operates an SCC switch in accordance with an SCC conduction phase angle to adjust the capacitance of the resonant capacitor of an LLC phase to cause each of the LLC phases to have equal resonant frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MAGNA POWERTRAIN GMBH & CO KG
    Inventors: Bo Sheng, Xiang Zhou, Wenbo Liu, Yang Chen, Yan-Fei Liu, Andrew Yurek, Lakshmi Varaha Iyer, Gerd Schlager, Michael Neudorfhofer, Wolfgang Baeck
  • Patent number: 11990270
    Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure provides a bus bar as a winding in a core of a transformer includes multiple sub-bars arranged horizontally and connected in parallel so as to minimize an AC current in the transformer, and the sub-bars have different widths and thus resistances or impedances with respect to a current flowing through the sub-bars are the same. Another aspect of the present disclosure provides a method of designing a bus bar for resistance or impedance matching between multiple sub-bars included in the bus bar to share a current to minimize an AC current in the transformer. Another aspect of the present disclosure provides a transformer, for a DC-DC converter for use in a vehicle, which is manufactured by the method of designing a bus bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Ho Bang, Deok Kwan Choi, Won Gon Kim, Min Heo, Ji Hoon Park, Kang Min Kim, A Ra Lee, Hyun Woo Shim, Du Ho Kim, Soo Min Jeon
  • Patent number: 11990319
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate are provided herein. For example, an RF power delivery compensation circuit comprises a first input configured to receive an RF forward power from an RF power source connected to a processing chamber and a second input configured to receive an RF delivered power from a matching network connected between the RF power source and the processing chamber. The RF power delivery compensation circuit calculates an RF forward power compensation factor based on the RF forward power and the RF delivered power for adjusting the RF forward power delivered to the processing chamber during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Yida Lin, Rui Li, Martin Lee Riker, Haitao Wang, Noufal Kappachali, Xiangjin Xie
  • Patent number: 11990744
    Abstract: Modular circuit protection devices and configurable panelboard systems include arc-free operation, thermal management features providing safe operation in hazardous environments at lower cost and without requiring conventional explosion-proof enclosures and without entailing series connected separately provided packages such as circuit breaker devices and starter motor contactors and controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew Butler, Joseph Michael Manahan, Adam Ledgerwood, Graig DeCarr
  • Patent number: 11990833
    Abstract: Provided is a low-cost noise filter having a noise suppression effect that is not reduced even when a resonance frequency changes according to changes in temperature. A noise filter includes: a noise detection unit which detects a common mode noise; a cancellation signal output unit; an injection unit which injects a cancellation signal; and a grounded capacitor. The cancellation signal output unit includes a filter part which generates the cancellation signal from the common mode noise, and an amplification part which amplifies the cancellation signal. A temperature dependence of a product of an inductance value and a capacitance value of a main circuit portion including the noise detection unit, the injection unit, and the grounded capacitor, and a temperature dependence of a product of an inductance value and a capacitance value of the filter part, are equal to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuaki Furusho, Ryota Asakura, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Mamoru Kamikura
  • Patent number: 11983028
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical power energy converter unit for converting Direct Current to Direct Current, DC-DC, with maximum power point tracking that measures converted power at the output and controller module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Nexperia B.V.
    Inventors: Omar Vince Link, Weichen Xu, Andre Rodrigues Mansano, Simon Van Der Jagt
  • Patent number: 11984816
    Abstract: A power conversion device and a press apparatus capable of preventing an excessive current in a DC-link capacitor are provided. The power conversion device 10 includes a voltage-doubling rectifier circuit 12. In the voltage-doubling rectifier circuit 12, in a voltage-doubling rectification mode, a common connection node Nc between two capacitors 102a and 102b is connected to a predetermined node. A current detector circuit 107 detects a switching current (IL) flowing in the switching elements SW1 and SW2, and a current detector circuit 108 detects a load current Ild of a load 15. In a mode switching period from a full-wave rectification mode to a voltage-doubling rectification mode, a controller circuit 110 controls the switching of the switching elements SW1 and SW2, based on the switching current (IL) and the load current Ild.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mizuki Nakahara, Hirooki Tokoi, Kimihisa Furukawa, Yuki Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 11984809
    Abstract: A CCM-based fly-back switching power supply circuit includes: a constant current control circuit, a sampling circuit and a peak current control circuit, wherein a sampling circuit is configured to sample the ON-time of the secondary coil to obtain its duty cycle signal D_SEC, and send the signal to a constant current control circuit; a constant current control circuit is configured to receive the duty cycle signal D_SEC, generate a voltage signal CAC from the duty cycle signal D_SEC and the preset reference voltage signal VREF, convert the voltage signal CAC and the peak current control signal VCST from the peak current control circuit into time signals, and conform a comparison on the time signals to output an adjustment signal CCOUT which is used to initiatively adjust the value of the peak current control signal VCST to cause the fly-back switching power supply circuit output a constant current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: LII SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jie Zhang, Min Zhu, Fulong Wang
  • Patent number: 11984717
    Abstract: A protective circuit can include an AC line configured to provide power from an AC source, and a first protection circuit coupled to the AC line and implemented to be electrically parallel with a load circuit. The first protection circuit can be configured to be in an inactive state to be substantially non-conducting when a voltage across the load circuit is in a normal range or an active state to be substantially conducting when the voltage across the load circuit has an overvoltage value greater than the normal range to shunt power away from the load circuit. The protective circuit can further include a second protection circuit implemented to be electrically between the AC source and the load circuit. The second protection circuit can be configured to block power from the AC source in response to a condition resulting from the first protection circuit being in the active state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Bourns, Inc.
    Inventors: Kelly C. Casey, Trunh Thanh Thomas Tran
  • Patent number: 11984707
    Abstract: A device has three single-pole modules and a chassis that can be connected to a busbar distribution system. The chassis has three input connections and three output connections, wherein each single-pole module has single-pole means for protecting against short-circuits and overloads and single-pole means for interrupting and establishing current, and wherein the input connections and output connections and the single-pole modules form three independent single-phase circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: GORLAN TEAM, S.L.U.
    Inventor: Jose Julio Gomez Barbero
  • Patent number: 11979086
    Abstract: This application provides a resonant conversion system, including a controller and a resonant conversion circuit. The resonant conversion circuit includes a high frequency chopper circuit, a resonant cavity, a transformer, and a rectification filter network, and the high frequency chopper circuit includes switches S1 and S2. The controller is configured to: detect a bridge arm midpoint voltage VSW, and determine based on the VSW a current threshold signal used to indicate a current threshold; detect a resonant current on a primary side of the transformer, and compare the resonant current with the current threshold signal to control on/off of the switch S1 or S2 based on the second electrical signal, so that the system operates in an inductive mode to ensure zero voltage switching of the switch, while operating in a state close to a capacitive mode to maximize the use of a gain region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Chin, Yuanjun Liu, Zhixiang Hu, Shuaibing Wang
  • Patent number: 11980105
    Abstract: The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for operating superconducting circuits. In one aspect, an electric circuit includes: (1) a superconductor component having a first terminal at a first end and a second terminal at a second end; (2) a gate component thermally-coupled to the superconductor component at a first location between the first terminal and the second terminal, where the gate component is thermally-coupled via a first section of the gate component; and where the gate component has a smallest width at the first section so as to focus resistive heating toward the superconductor component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: PSIQUANTUM CORP., Government of the United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Commerce
    Inventors: Faraz Najafi, Qiaodan Jin Stone, Adam Nykoruk McCaughan
  • Patent number: 11979093
    Abstract: A resonant parallel triple active bridge converter comprising a DC port configured to receive DC energy, an AC port configured to produce AC energy, and an AC line cycle energy storage port, coupled to both the DC port and the AC port, where the AC line cycle energy storage port comprises an energy storage device for storing energy during an energy conversion process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Enphase Energy, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael J. Harrison
  • Patent number: 11973434
    Abstract: A rectifier has at least three outputs at which the rectifier provides a high potential, a low potential and at least one medium potential. Phase voltages of a supply grid can be supplied to the rectifier via feed lines. Inductors are arranged in the feed lines. A clamping circuit has two diode circuits that are connected in series. One of the end points of the series circuit is connected to an output at which the rectifier provides one of the medium potentials. The other end point is connected to another output. The node is connected to a reference potential via an overall capacitor circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alexander Hensler, Philipp Oschmann, Hubert Schierling
  • Patent number: 11971763
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a connector for coupling a first electronic device and a second electronic device. The first electronic device is able to supply power to the second electronic device and implement data transmission between the first electronic device and the second electronic device. The connector includes: a power source; a first connector component configured to be coupled with the first electronic device; a power-supplying connector component configured to be coupled with the power source; a power line configured to couple the second electronic device and the first connector component with the power-supplying connector component; a power-supplying state detection circuit configured to be coupled with the power-supplying connector component; and a message transmission line having a first end coupled with the power-supplying state detection circuit and a second end configured in one of a first configuration and a second configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Matrixed Reality Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Pengda Sun