Patents Examined by Jue Zhang
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Patent number: 12046990Abstract: A multi-phase high-precision current sharing control method applied to constant on-time control is provided, wherein a current difference between continuously sampled current of each line and mean current is processed by a PI compensation module and a low-pass filter module to obtain on-time regulation data. A high bit of the regulation data controls the value of counter reference Vref in an on-time control module, and a low bit controls the length of an enabled delay line in a delay line module. The counter timing control of the on-time control module is combined with the delay line timing control of the delay line module to improve the control precision of a DPWM. The method takes COT control of a Buck converter as a typical application. Compared with a multi-phase COT controller without a current-sharing mechanism, the method can improve the stability and reliability of the system.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2024Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Shen Xu, Haiqing Zhang, Yujie Liu, Ruizhi Wang, Yuan Gao, Yongjia Li, Weifeng Sun, Longxing Shi
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Patent number: 12046980Abstract: An inverter-integrated motor apparatus employing a simplified structure that connects an inverter assembly into which a power module, a cooling device, and a capacitor are integrally combined and a motor assembly, is configured for securing the cooling performance through water cooling.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventor: Hyong Joon Park
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Patent number: 12046892Abstract: An electronic installation device for controlling a load in an electrical circuit, which comprises a single or multi-layer printed circuit board arrangement with electrical components and conductor tracks and which comprises a load circuit and a control circuit. According to the invention, in order to provide an electronic installation device with protective devices against short-circuit and against overload and which are specific to devices, the load circuit and the control circuit are at least functionally coupled to one another, and the electronic installation device comprises a first overcurrent protection device for protection against short-circuit currents and a second overcurrent protection device for protection against overload currents.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SASInventors: Thomas Canet, Christian Kneifel, May Zhang, Linda Hao
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Patent number: 12046992Abstract: Provided is an overheat protection circuit with improved accuracy of overheat detection. The overheat protection circuit includes: an input terminal; an output terminal; a first transistor containing a first terminal, a second terminal, and a control terminal, the first transistor being switchable between ON and OFF; and a first NPN transistor containing a base to be connected to a node between the second terminal of the first transistor and the ground terminal, an emitter to be connected to the ground terminal, and a collector to be supplied with a constant current and connected to the output terminal, the first NPN transistor being switchable between ON and OFF in accordance with a voltage level of a reference voltage to be supplied to the base, the reference voltage having a temperature characteristic of having a temperature coefficient of zero or more.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2021Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Ablic Inc.Inventor: Yoshiomi Shiina
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Patent number: 12046998Abstract: A power converter module includes an active metal braze (AMB) substrate, power converter circuitry, and a housing. The AMB substrate includes an aluminum nitride base layer, a first conductive layer on a first surface of the aluminum nitride base layer, and a second conductive layer on a second surface of the aluminum nitride base layer opposite the first surface. The power converter circuitry includes a number of silicon carbide switching components coupled to one another via the first conductive layer. The housing is over the power converter circuitry and the AMB substrate. By using an AMB substrate with an aluminum nitride base layer, the thermal dissipation characteristics of the power converter module may be substantially improved while maintaining the structural integrity of the power converter module.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Wolfspeed, Inc.Inventors: Mrinal K. Das, Adam Barkley, Henry Lin, Marcelo Schupbach
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Patent number: 12040723Abstract: A power Converter having power semiconductor components is disclosed herein, wherein a DC-link capacitor has a capacitance of less than 3 ?F and is not designed as a separate electrical device of the power converter, and wherein the clock frequency is greater than 1 MHz. A vehicle, (e.g., an aircraft), including a power Converter of this kind is also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2020Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KGInventor: Marco Bohlländer
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Patent number: 12040720Abstract: A resonance conversion device and a universal serial bus circuit are provided. The resonance conversion device includes an input filter circuit, a full-bridge LLC converter circuit, a transformer circuit, a rectifier filter circuit, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine whether an indication voltage of a voltage command is less than or equal to a threshold value and to perform the following steps: in response to the indication voltage being less than or equal to the threshold value, controlling the full-bridge LLC converter circuit into a half-bridge operation mode, and regulating the DC output voltage by performing half-bridge burst mode control on the full-bridge LLC converter circuit based on the DC output voltage; and in response to the indication voltage being greater than the threshold value, regulating the DC output voltage by performing full-bridge burst mode control on the full-bridge LLC converter circuit based on the DC output voltage.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignees: Chicony Power Technology Co., Ltd., National Taipei University of TechnologyInventors: Yen-Shin Lai, Yong-Yi Huang, Xiang-Yu Wu, You-Quan Dong, Shu-Hao Wu
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Patent number: 12034376Abstract: Aspects of hybrid modulation control for DC-to-AC converters are described. In one embodiment, a hybrid modulation pattern is generated. The hybrid modulation pattern separates switch gating control into multiple control regions for a half cycle of the waveform. A first control region modulates according to a first modulation technique and a second control region modulates according to a second modulation technique. The switches of a resonant converter are controlled according to the hybrid modulation pattern to generate the waveform.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC.Inventors: Jih-Sheng Lai, Chih-Shen Yeh
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Patent number: 12032396Abstract: Disclosed is a voltage generating circuit including a reference voltage generating part, a leakage current monitoring part, a control part, and an internal voltage generating part. The reference voltage generating part generates a reference voltage. The leakage current monitoring part generates a monitoring leakage current corresponding to a leakage current of an internal circuit of a semiconductor device. The control part controls the reference voltage according to the monitoring leakage current. The internal voltage generating part receives the reference voltage being controlled by the control part, and supplies an internal voltage to the internal circuit according to the controlled reference voltage. A semiconductor device including the same is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corp.Inventor: Hiroki Murakami
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Patent number: 12034353Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator, a rotor, and a housing. A slot in a stator core of the stator includes a coil housing and a slot opening that opens the coil housing radially inward. A coil includes a coil end that protrudes in an axial direction from an axial end surface of the stator core. A plastic portion that is integral with the stator core includes a blocking portion that extends in the axial direction so as to block the slot opening, and a cylindrical wall that is coupled with the blocking portion. The cylindrical wall protrudes in the axial direction from the axial end surface of the stator core. The housing defines a coil end cooling channel in which a cooling liquid flows to cool the coil end, at a location radially outward from the cylindrical wall.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Jin Ito
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Patent number: 12034358Abstract: An electromotive transmission device for a vehicle having an electric motor (2) comprising a stator winding (7) and a rotor (5). A drive shaft is driven by an input shaft (12) via a transmission. The transmission is arranged coaxially with the input shaft (12) and the electric motor (2). The stator winding (7) can be cooled by a cooling unit. The transmission has an annular support component, which is joined to the inner face of the radial end wall (11). Pressurized oil is supplied to a radially running annular passage (18) arranged in the end wall (11) and/or the annular support component. A plurality of spray outlets (19) are distributed around the circumference of the annular passage (18) or a radially running slot-like spray outlet. The spray or sprays from the spray outlets (19) are directed at the stator winding (7) and/or the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventor: Martin Sagmeister
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Patent number: 12034387Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing flexible printed circuit board (“PCB”)-based mobile sensor platform. In various embodiments, a flexible PCB-based mobile sensor platform includes a body portion(s) and at least one of a microcontroller, a locomotion system, sensors, a transceiver(s), and/or the like, each disposed on the body portion(s). The locomotion system includes one or more flexible PCB portions and corresponding actuators. Based on instructions from the microcontroller, at least one actuator may cause bending and unbending of a corresponding flexible PCB portion(s) that causes the flexible PCB-based mobile sensor platform to move toward a target location within a first environment. Upon arrival, the sensors may collect sensor data regarding at least one of the target location, an object located at the target location, or a portion of the object, and the microcontroller may send the collected sensor data to an external device via the transceiver.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLCInventor: Patrick Giagnocavo
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Patent number: 12024279Abstract: The motor-integrated fan has a suction port and a blowing port, and includes a rotating part rotatably supported on a shaft part; and a peripheral drive motor that rotates the rotating part by applying motive power from a duct provided on an outer peripheral side of the shaft part. The motor includes: a permanent magnet on a rotation support ring connected to the outer peripheral side of a blade of the rotating part; and a coil facing the permanent magnet in the axial direction of a rotational axis. In a cross-section taken on a plane orthogonal to the circumferential direction of the rotational axis, the center of gravity of a free end side portion including at least one of the rotation support ring and the permanent magnet is positioned closer to the suction port in the axial direction than the center of gravity of the thrust applied to the blade.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Naoaki Fujiwara
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Patent number: 12027960Abstract: Controller and method for a power converter. For example, a controller for a power converter includes: a feedback detector configured to receive a feedback voltage, sample the feedback voltage, and generate a sampled voltage based at least in part on the feedback voltage, the sampled voltage being associated with one or more fluctuations in magnitude; a resistor selector configured to receive the sampled voltage and generate one or more control signals based at least in part on the one or more fluctuations associated with the sampled voltage; a variable resistor network configured to receive the one or more control signals, determine a network resistance based at least in part on the one or more control signals, and output a compensation voltage based at least in part on the network resistance; and a voltage generator connected to the variable resistor network and configured to receive the compensation voltage.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: On-Bright Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Qian Fang, Yaozhang Chen, Liqiang Zhu
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Patent number: 12027982Abstract: The present document relates to a power converter comprising an inductor, a first stage, and a second stage. The first stage may be coupled between an input of the power converter and the inductor, and the first stage may comprise a first flying capacitor. The second stage may be coupled between the inductor and an output of the power converter, and the second stage may comprise a second flying capacitor. A second terminal of the first flying capacitor may be connected to a first terminal of the inductor, and a first terminal of the second flying capacitor may be connected to a second terminal of the inductor.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Dialog Semiconductor (UK) LimitedInventors: Francesco Cannillo, Holger Petersen
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Patent number: 12027984Abstract: The invention relates to a switching power supply converter, which comprising a transformer including a primary winding and a secondary winding, a power switch circuit and a voltage input circuit, a voltage output circuit, an auxiliary winding, a control circuit, and a voltage sensing circuit; the control circuit performs that in a first turn-off period of the power switch circuit, acquiring a first time duration from a preset delay after the power switch circuit turning off until the sensed voltage corresponding to a preset condition, and acquiring a difference between the first time duration and a preset time duration as a second time duration; in a second turn-off period of the power switch circuit, acquiring the sensed voltage at the time point corresponding to the end of the second time duration starting from the preset delay after the power switch circuit turning off as an effective sample.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: MSJ SYSTEMS LLCInventors: Liang Yan, Peng Li
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Patent number: 12027980Abstract: A switched mode power supply (SMPS) includes a first switch, a second switch connected, at a switching node, in series with the first switch, and an inductor coupled between the switching node and an output node for providing an inductor current, at the output node. The SMPS also includes an oscillator circuit for providing a clock signal characterized by an oscillating frequency, an adaptive minimum duty-cycle circuit configured to receive an error voltage signal and to generate a current signal to vary the oscillating frequency of the clock signal in response to the error voltage signal, wherein the error voltage signal is based on an output signal at the output node, and a pulse-width modulation (PWM) circuit configured to receive the error voltage signal and the clock signal and to provide a switching control signal to control the first switch and the second switch.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: DIODES INCORPORATEDInventors: Wenliang Chen, Jiansong Chen
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Patent number: 12027992Abstract: A power converter for transforming electrical power between direct current power and alternating current power is provided, as well as related methods and systems. The power converter comprises: a half-bridge inverter, a switching cell, and a connection branch connecting the half-bridge inverter to the switching cell. The half-bridge inverter comprises: first and second switches connected in parallel, and a first capacitor connected between the first and second switches. The switching cell comprises: a first pair of switches forming a first branch, a second pair of switches and a second capacitor forming a second branch; and a third capacitor connected between the first and second branches. The connection branch is coupled to the half-bridge inverter at a first point intermediate the first capacitor and the second switch, and coupled to the switching cell at a second point intermediate the first branch and the second capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: ECOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPERIEUREInventors: Saeed Arazm, Kamal Al-Haddad
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Patent number: 12021471Abstract: A load protection and control apparatus (1) for protecting and controlling an electrical load connected to the load protection and control apparatus (1) comprising an overcurrent protection circuit (1A) having a power switch (5) through which the electrical load receives an electrical load current (IL) and having a sensor component (4) connected in series with the power switch (5) and adapted to generate directly a voltage drop (?U4) corresponding to the current rise speed of the electrical load current (IL) flowing from an input terminal (2) of the load protection and control apparatus (1) via the sensor component (4) and the power switch (5) to the output terminal (3) and having a driver circuit (6) adapted to detect an occurring overcurrent depending on the voltage drop (?U4) generated by the sensor component (4) and/or depending on a voltage drop (?U5) along the power switch (5) and adapted to switch off said power switch (5) upon detection of an overcurrent within a switch-off period of less than one milType: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Future Systems Besitz GmbHInventors: Philipp Steinberger, Hubert Lenker, Peter Spiel
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Patent number: 12015341Abstract: Apparatus providing a regulated power supply to an oscillator comprises a reference voltage generator supplying a voltage reference, a regulator producing, based on a voltage received thereat, a regulated supply used by the oscillator which bases its frequency thereon, a capacitor having a terminal coupled to the regulator at a point, and a switch that is coupled to the reference voltage generator and to the point, wherein the closed switch couples the reference voltage generator to the point and wherein the open switch disconnects the point from the reference voltage generator, the switch being closed for a first time period during which a voltage based on the voltage reference from the reference voltage generator is supplied to the regulator and capacitor, and for a second, subsequent, time period the switch is opened and voltage stored on the capacitor is supplied to the regulator.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: WILIOT, LTD.Inventors: Alon Yehezkely, Ido Yogev, Tom Cohen