Patents Examined by Jue Zhang
  • Patent number: 12401268
    Abstract: Methods and systems comprising an inverter comprising: a semiconductor-based power module that is overrated by a factor f1 having a value greater than two and configured to receive a DC signal and convert the DC signal into an AC signal; a saturable inductive grid filter configured to filter the AC signal; at least one sensor configured to produce a current measurement and a voltage measurement from the AC signal output from the saturable inductive grid filter; and a processor configured to compute adaptive controller gain values using at least the current measurement and temperature, and cause an adjustment to a gain of an inverter controller in accordance with the adaptive controller gain values to maintain stability when the saturable inductive grid filter saturates at high current operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2025
    Assignees: UT-BATTELLE, LLC, UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Maximiliano Flavio Ferrari Maglia, Thomas B. Ollis, Aditya Sundararajan, Guodong Liu, Mohammed M. Olama, Yang Chen, Leon M. Tolbert
  • Patent number: 12401289
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure include a power-conversion system including an input, an output, a DC/DC converter coupled to the input, a DC/AC inverter coupled to the DC/DC converter and coupled to the output, and at least one controller coupled to the DC/DC converter and the DC/AC inverter, the at least one controller being configured to control the DC/DC converter to draw input power from the input and provide converted power to the DC/AC inverter, and control the DC/AC inverter to receive the converted power and provide output power to the output in synchronization with the DC/DC converter drawing the input power from the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2025
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anil Cheniveettil Suresh, Chandrasekaran Jayaraman, Pradeep Tolakanahalli Nagabhushanrao
  • Patent number: 12393213
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed corresponding to a voltage regulator. An example circuit includes an output terminal; a first transistor including a current terminal and a control terminal coupled to an output terminal; a second transistor including a control terminal and a current terminal coupled to the control terminal of the first transistor; a third transistor including a first current terminal and a second current terminal, the first current terminal of the third transistor coupled to the output terminal; current mirror circuitry including a terminal coupled to the second current terminal of the third transistor; and inverter circuitry including an input terminal and an output terminal, the input terminal coupled to the terminal of the current mirror and the second current terminal of the third transistor, the output terminal coupled to the control terminal of the second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2025
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Harikrishna Parthasarathy, Khyati Bansal, Venkatesh Kadlimatti, Kunal Karanjkar
  • Patent number: 12386377
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices generate multiple reference voltages. Methods include receiving, at a voltage regulator, a voltage from a voltage source, and generating, using the voltage regulator, a tracking current based on the received voltage, the tracking current having an amplitude that tracks changes in a voltage level of the voltage source. Methods also include generating, using the voltage regulator, a first reference voltage based on the tracking current, the first reference voltage being a designated voltage less than the voltage source and tracking changes in the voltage level of the voltage source, and generating, using the voltage regulator, a second reference voltage based on the received voltage, the second reference voltage being a fixed voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Adrian Lin
  • Patent number: 12388347
    Abstract: Power supply units of multiple channels each include an output stage that generates an output voltage across positive/negative outputs OUTP and OUTN, and a voltage detector that generates a voltage detection signal that indicates the output voltage. A feedback signal generating unit of the power supply unit of a master channel that is one of the multiple channels receives voltage detection signals from the power supply units of the remaining multiple channels, i.e., the slave channels, and generates a feedback signal based on the voltage detection signals of all the channels. A feedback controller generates a control signal such that the feedback signal approaches a target value. An output stage of each slave channel operates based on the control signal generated by the master channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: ADVANTEST CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiko Shimizu, Shoichiro Imai
  • Patent number: 12388348
    Abstract: A controller in a power conversion unit increases or decreases, based on a detected voltage value of a first flying capacitor, a value of a gate voltage to be applied to a gate terminal of a target switch to be controlled selectively from first to fourth switches in a first capacitor circuit to cause conduction between a drain terminal and a source terminal of the target switch, or changes a gradient of the gate voltage value. The controller increases or decreases, based on a detected voltage value of the second flying capacitor, a value of a gate voltage to be applied to a gate terminal of a target switch to be controlled selectively from fifth to eighth switches in a second capacitor circuit to cause conduction between a drain terminal and a source terminal of the target switch, or changes a gradient of the gate voltage value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayoshi Tawaragi, Takanori Ishii, Aya Murata
  • Patent number: 12388358
    Abstract: A power conversion device converts AC voltage into DC voltage. The power conversion device includes a transformer, a first capacitor, a primary circuit, a rectifying-smoothing circuit, and a controller. The primary circuit includes a bridge circuit having two arm switching elements, and is connected to a primary winding of the transformer via the first capacitor. The rectifying-smoothing circuit includes a secondary diode and an output capacitor. The primary circuit includes a buffer circuit having a buffer capacitor and a buffer switching element. The controller controls switching of switching elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Sadanori Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12379738
    Abstract: A low power hybrid reverse (LPHR) bandgap reference (BGR) and digital temperature sensor (DTS) or a digital thermometer, which utilizes subthreshold metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: You Li, David Duarte, Yongping Fan
  • Patent number: 12368379
    Abstract: A control module, for a resonant switched-capacitor converter having first, second, third and fourth cascaded switches and generating an output voltage, includes a timing circuit generating a clock, a controller generating first and second control signals indicating, respectively, first and second control quantities, the difference between which being a function of the difference between a reference quantity and a feedback quantity depending on the output voltage, first and second delay circuits that generate first and second logic signals and, respectively, third and fourth logic signals, the first and third logic signals being delayed with respect to the clock as a function of, respectively, the first and second control quantities, the second and fourth control signals being respectively the logic negation of the first and third logic signals, and a driver that controls the first, second, third, and fourth switches based on, respectively, the first, second, third, and fourth logic signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Alessandro Nicolosi, Alessandra Farina, Edoardo Bonizzoni
  • Patent number: 12368333
    Abstract: A rotor for an interior permanent magnet motor, an interior permanent magnet motor, and a compressor includes a rotor core, a plurality of U-shaped permanent magnet accommodating grooves, a plurality of first air grooves, and a plurality of first recesses, wherein the plurality of U-shaped permanent magnet accommodating grooves are arranged inside the rotor core at intervals; the plurality of first air grooves are provided outside the ends of the U-shaped permanent magnet accommodating grooves; and each first air groove is located on an extension line of the end of the corresponding U-shaped permanent magnet accommodating groove and is close to the outer contour of the rotor so as to form a plurality of first magnetic isolation bridges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: DANFOSS (TIANJIN) LTD.
    Inventors: Wanzhen Liu, Yan Lin, Guangqiang Liu, Zhenyu Wang, Meng Wang, Shizhong Ji, Li Yao
  • Patent number: 12368390
    Abstract: A power converter is provided. The power converter includes first to fourth switches electrically connected in series, a flying capacitor and a controller. Positive and negative terminals of the flying capacitor are electrically connected to the second and third switches respectively. The controller operates the first and fourth switches to perform a first complementary switching with a first dead time, and operates the second and third switches to perform a second complementary switching with a second dead time. The controller determines to regulate the first or second dead time by detecting a capacitor voltage of the flying capacitor, such that the capacitor voltage of the flying capacitor is maintained within a balance voltage range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Hsin-Chih Chen, Li-Hung Wang, Chao-Li Kao, Yi-Ping Hsieh, Hung-Chieh Lin
  • Patent number: 12355309
    Abstract: A drive unit, in particular for a vehicle flap drive, includes a housing (3), a motor (2) arranged in the housing, a control device (11) configured for control of the motor (2), comprising a first printed circuit board (12) having a top side (12a) and a underside (12b), and a second printed circuit board (13) having a top side (13a) and an underside (13b), wherein the first printed circuit board (12) is arranged above the motor (2), and the second printed circuit board (13) is arranged above the first printed circuit board (12). The drive unit further comprises a power unit (19) arranged on the first printed circuit board (12), comprising at least one first filter (20) and a Hall sensor (21) and a control unit (23) arranged on the second printed circuit board (13), the control unit (23) comprising at least one microcontroller (24) and a voltage regulator (26). At least one polarity reverse protection device (29) is arranged on the underside (12b) of the first printed circuit board (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Inventor: Marc Zander
  • Patent number: 12348083
    Abstract: Provided is a stator including a coil of a winding of a flat wire conductor, a stator core including a slot for housing a part of the coil, and a flow passage part through which a coolant flows, provided between a wall part of the slot and an outer surface of the coil facing the wall part. The extension shape of the flow passage part from an inlet to an outlet for the coolant changes along the axial direction of the stator core. The flow passage part is, for example, a concave part formed on the wall part of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Seki, Fuminori Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12346141
    Abstract: A low dropout regulator comprising: a supply voltage connection for receiving a supply voltage; a load voltage output connection for providing a load voltage to a load; load voltage output control circuitry comprising a pass transistor configured to regulate the load voltage based on a voltage at its gate region; adaptive biasing circuitry comprising: a biasing transistor configured to regulate the voltage provided to the gate region of the pass transistor based on a voltage provided to a gate region of the biasing transistor; and operational transconductance amplifier, OTA, circuitry comprising a first OTA transistor and a second OTA transistor, wherein a gate region of the first OTA transistor is arranged to receive a reference voltage and a gate region of the second OTA transistor is arranged to receive a voltage indicative of the load voltage; and adaptive compensation circuitry comprising: (i) a first compensation capacitor having a first electrode and a second electrode, (ii) a second compensation capac
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Agile Analog Ltd
    Inventor: Mallikarjun Banappagol
  • Patent number: 12348123
    Abstract: A DC-DC converter circuit includes a high-side transistor, a low side transistor, a gate driver power supply, a converter control, and a capacitance divider network. The high-side transistor includes a high-side drain terminal, a high-side source terminal, and a high-side gate terminal. The high-side drain terminal is coupled to a positive DC supply terminal. The gate driver power supply is electrically isolated from the high-side transistor and the low-side transistor. The converter control is configured to supply high-side control commands and low-side control commands to the high-side transistor and the low-side transistor, respectively. The capacitance divider network includes a first capacitor and a second capacitor. The first capacitor is electrically connected in series, at a DC-link midpoint node, to the second capacitor. The DC-link midpoint node, the gate driver power supply, and the converter control are all electrically connected to, and share, a local electrical ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Pavel Studnicka, Petr Spanel, Ondrej Kotaba, Jiri Holy
  • Patent number: 12339690
    Abstract: A method for regulating a voltage reference signal includes providing a first output current during a first interval and a boosted output current during a second interval to generate a low-dropout voltage reference signal based on a first power supply voltage, a second power supply voltage, and a reference voltage level. The method includes, during the second interval, compensating for a voltage drop caused by providing the boosted output current. The first output current may be provided in a first mode of operation. The boosted output current and voltage drop compensation may be provided in a boosted mode of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Péter Onódy, Tamás Marozsák, Viktor Zsolczai, András V. Horváth
  • Patent number: 12341441
    Abstract: Load bridges (2) of an inverter unit (1) include load branches having semiconductor switches (4, 5, 15, 16), that have a node point (6) which is connected to a load (7) and to two different potentials (P1, P2). Node points (6) are connected via a first resistance circuit (8) to potential (P1). Node points (6) are further connected via second resistance circuits (9) to tap-off points (11). The tap-off points (11) are connected via third resistance circuits (10) to the other potential (P2). At each of the tap-off points (11), a potential (U1, U2, U3) is tapped-off and is fed to a monitoring device (12). The monitoring device (12) determines the difference (U1?) between the tapped-off potentials and the second potential (P2). The control device (3) considers the signals (M1, M2, M3) for the actuation of the load bridges (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Johannes Klier
  • Patent number: 12337430
    Abstract: A high-precision machine tool with at least one linear drive and guide-bearing, having at least one linear motor, which has at least one magnet arranged on one of the machine components and at least one coil arranged on the other machine component and operatively connected to the at least one magnet, wherein the at least one magnet and the at least one coil are configured to exert an opposing attractive force and to perform an at least temporarily relative movement in relation to one another; at least one hydrostatic fluid bearing arranged on one of the two machine components and operatively connected to the other machine component, wherein the hydrostatic fluid bearing exerts a repulsive force opposite to the attractive force; and a first bearing gap, formed between the two machine components, the height of which is greater than 0 ?m and less than or equal to 10 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Kern Microtechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Fritz, Christian Maier
  • Patent number: 12341400
    Abstract: A concentric manifold ring assembly comprises an internal distribution manifold for a generator. The manifold is for use in a direct-liquid-cooled alternator together with a mating housing to form a concentric fluid distribution channel that enables the transport and distribution of chilled coolant from a heat exchanger to select locations in the alternator via channels, ducts, and jets. The external heat exchanger feeds chilled coolant through a feed port where the incoming fluid is directed circumferentially via a channel formed by the manifold body and housing. From the circumferential flow, streams of coolant flow from drilled jet ports, while the circumferential flow back-cools rectifier mounting surfaces. Fluid flows flowing axially out of ducts to create an active end-to-end circulation of chilled fluid within the alternator to absorb thermal energy from alternator components before being drawn out of a return flow channel via a return flow port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: C.E. Niehoff & Co.
    Inventor: Lukasz Wyderski
  • Patent number: 12339691
    Abstract: A LDO regulator circuit comprises an input comparator and driver circuitry including transistors having a current flow path therethrough coupled to an output node of the regulator. First and second driver each comprises: driver transistors having the current flow paths therethrough coupled to the output node, capacitive boost circuitry that applies to the drive transistors a voltage-pumped replica of the comparison signal. Voltage refresh transistor circuitry coupled to the capacitive boost circuitry transfer thereon the voltage-pumped replica.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Antonino Conte, Marco Ruta, Francesco Tomaiuolo, Michelangelo Pisasale, Marion Helne Grimal