Abstract: Provided are a wireless charging board and a wireless charging device. The wireless charging board includes: a shielding layer; a coil pattern disposed on one surface of the shielding layer; and a magnetic pattern disposed in a space of a central part of the coil pattern.

Abstract: A wireless power supply and voltage controller for powering and controlling a tattoo machine according to the present invention includes a battery housing having a plurality of walls that, collectively, define an interior area and a rechargeable battery positioned in the interior area of the battery housing. An input selection assembly is positioned on an exterior surface of a respective wall of the plurality of walls of the battery housing, the input selection assembly being operable to generate a speed generation signal. A controller is electrically connected to the input selection assembly that is operable to regulate a quantity of voltage flowing from the battery according to the speed generation signal.

Abstract: An energy harvester system includes an aircraft power cable carrying an alternating current and an energy harvester. The energy harvester includes a ferromagnetic ring encircling the aircraft power cable and configured so that the alternating current in the aircraft power cable generates magnetic flux in the ferromagnetic ring and an inductive coil wrapped around at least a portion of the ferromagnetic ring to generate a voltage from the magnetic flux in the ferromagnetic ring.

Abstract: A circuit for combining direct current (DC) power including multiple direct current (DC) voltage inputs; multiple inductive elements. The inductive elements are adapted for operatively connecting respectively to the DC voltage inputs. Multiple switches connect respectively with the inductive elements. A controller is configured to switch the switches periodically at a frequency sufficiently high so that direct currents flowing through the inductive elements are substantially zero. A direct current voltage output is connected across one of the DC voltage inputs and a common reference to both the inputs and the output.

Abstract: An electrical power system connectable to a power grid includes a plurality of electrical power subsystems, each of the plurality of electrical power subsystems including a power converter electrically coupled to a generator having a generator rotor and a generator stator. The electrical power system further includes an intermediate power path extending from each of the plurality of electrical power subsystems for providing power from each of the plurality of electrical power subsystems to the power grid. The electrical power system further includes a zig-zag transformer electrically coupling each of the plurality of intermediate power paths to the power grid, the zig-zag transformer including a primary winding and a plurality of secondary windings, each of the plurality of secondary windings connected to one of the plurality of intermediate power paths, and wherein at least one of the plurality of secondary windings is a zig-zag winding.

Abstract: A powerline communication control system for controlling a lighting unit, such as an LED lighting unit, including a master controller for receiving lighting unit control inputs from a lighting controller and generating corresponding lighting unit command outputs in a lighting system command format and transmission mode and superimposing the lighting unit command outputs onto the power distribution system and at least one lighting slave unit for receiving the lighting command signal, separating the lighting command signal from the power signal and for providing lighting unit control commands to the at least one lighting unit to control illumination thereof.

Abstract: An alternating current step-down circuit comprises an AC input, a DC output, an AC output, a full-bridge rectification and filtering circuit, a flyback step-down circuit, a DC-DC step-down unit and an inverting unit. The AC input is connected with an input of the full-bridge rectification and filtering circuit; an output of the full-bridge rectification and filtering circuit is connected with an input of the flyback step-down circuit and an input of the DC-DC step-down unit, respectively; an output of the flyback step-down circuit is connected with the DC output, the input of the DC-DC step-down unit and an input of the inverting unit, respectively; an output of the DC-DC step-down unit is connected with the input of the inverting unit; and an output of the inverting unit is connected with the AC output.

Abstract: According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a UPS system comprising an input, an output, a converter, an inverter configured to convert DC power into output AC power, and a controller configured to operate the inverter to introduce a voltage droop to the output AC power, wherein the controller includes an active power droop controller including a first moving average filter configured to sample instantaneous active power of the inverter to obtain instantaneous active power samples and calculate a first DC component of the instantaneous active power samples, and a first Min-Max filter configured to receive the first DC component of the instantaneous active power samples and output a second DC component of the instantaneous active power samples having a convergence time less than the first DC component, wherein the active power droop controller is configured to calculate the voltage droop based on the second DC component.

Abstract: A power transmitting apparatus includes a plurality of primary-side resonant coils disposed along a conveyance path of a plurality of electronic devices and configured to utilize magnetic field resonance to transmit electric power to secondary-side resonant coils of the respective electronic devices conveyed along the conveyance path; and a plurality of phase adjusters connected between an alternating-current source and the respective primary-side resonant coils and configured to respectively adjust phases of the electric power, supplied to the primary-side resonant coils from the alternating-current source, so as to uniform the phases of the electric power, supplied to the primary-side resonant coils from the alternating-current source.

Abstract: An on-board electrical system for motor vehicles has a battery, a generator and at least one normal consumer that is connected to the battery in a switchable manner. A DC voltage/DC voltage converter is connected on its primary side to the battery and on its secondary side to a high-load resistor. A switch connects the high-load consumer to a storage device in a first switching position, and to the primary side in a second switching position. A controller controls and operates the switch between the first and the second switching position. A device that detects the actual electrical power of the high-load consumer is associated with the high-load consumer, and is connected at the output end to the controller.

Abstract: A wireless power receiver is disclosed. The wireless power receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a resonator for receiving wireless power; a rectifier for converting alternating current power received from the resonator to direct current power and supplying output power to a load; and a control unit for adjusting a resonant frequency of the resonator to directly control the output power of the rectifier supplied to the load.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a photovoltaic module and a photovoltaic system including the photovoltaic module. The photovoltaic module includes a solar cell module having a plurality of solar cells, an inverter to convert DC power from the solar cell module to AC power, a cable to output the AC power from the inverter, and an infrared (IR) communication unit to transmit, at least one of voltage information of the solar cell module, current information of the solar cell module, voltage information of the inverter, and current information of the inverter, to an adjacent first photovoltaic module, an external gateway, or an external IR communication device. Thereby, communication with an external terminal can be easily performed.

Abstract: An apparatus for converting power includes at least one impedance matching network which receives an electrical signal. The apparatus includes at least one AC to DC converter in communication with the impedance matching network. Also disclosed is a method for powering a load and an apparatus for converting power and additional embodiments of an apparatus for converting power.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless power transfer apparatus performing communication with a wireless power reception apparatus. The wireless power transfer apparatus includes a housing having one surface with an opening, a coil part disposed within the housing and configured to transmit a wireless power signal to the wireless power reception apparatus, a temperature sensor disposed within the housing to overlap the opening, and configured to measure temperature of an object through the opening, and a power transmission control unit configured to control the coil part based on the temperature measured by the temperature sensor.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for a system for a power over data line (PoDL) system. The system includes a ground plane that has a cutout. In addition, an alternating current (AC) capacitor pad configured to establish a bidirectional data channel. The AC capacitor pad is positioned in the cutout of the ground plane. Similarly, a PoDL pad connected to one or more inductors and a direct current (DC) power source is positioned in the cutout of the ground plane and is in series with the AC capacitor pad.

Abstract: A transmitter comprises a power source; a transmit resonator electrically connected to the power source via an electrically small transmission line; and a metamaterial transmission line (MMTL) electrically connected between the power source and the electrically small transmission line. The transmit resonator comprises at least two electrodes; and at least one inductive coil electrically connected to the electrodes. The transmit resonator is configured to generate an electric field when excited by the power source. The electrically small transmission line is shorter in length than a wavelength of excitation of a power signal generated by the power source. The MMTL is configured to counteract an effect of the electrically small transmission line. The MMTL has a negative phase velocity (NPV).

Abstract: A generator system may include redundant control. The generator system may include any combination of redundant controllers, redundant communication paths, or other redundant control. A generator system may include an electrical bus, a first generator controller, and the second generator controller. The first generator controller may control a first generator breaker for connecting a first generator to the electrical bus and configured to control an external breaker for selectively connecting the electrical bus to an external source. The second generator controller may control a second generator breaker for connecting a second generator to the common bus and configured to control the external breaker for selectively connecting the electrical bus to the external source.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein describe a solar panel protection and control system. The system can bypass the solar panel under hazardous conditions or under command. The system can also help a solar panel array to reach its maximum power point in operation.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a system and method for managing a battery for vehicle and vehicle thereof. A power network server includes a controller and a memory storing a program to be executed in the controller. The program includes instructions for collecting information about energy consumption of the battery and information about a vehicle state from the vehicle, converting an ambient temperature based energy consumption to a reference temperature based learned energy consumption, calculating a charging or discharging amount of energy by reflecting the current ambient temperature based on the converted learned energy consumption, setting a range of charging or discharging current based on the charging or discharging amount of energy and an extra amount of energy, and managing the battery based on the set range of charging or discharging current.

Abstract: A charge/discharge control apparatus includes: a controller which performs a discharge control to discharge a rechargeable battery and a charge control to charge the rechargeable battery using excess power which is power, among generated power, which is not to be consumed by a load; and a setter which sets a threshold value for remaining energy in the rechargeable battery, according to a planned discharged energy amount which is planned as a discharged energy amount to be supplied from the rechargeable battery to the load during a specified time period. The controller performs a discharge prohibition control to prohibit a discharge of the rechargeable battery when the remaining energy in the rechargeable battery is equal to or below the threshold value prior to the specified time period.