Patents Examined by Kyle J Moody
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Patent number: 12203977Abstract: Disclosed are a power-loss delay circuit and a detection control circuit thereof. The power-loss delay circuit and the corresponding detection control circuit are added onto a flyback circuit. When a product is working normally, an energy storage capacitor is charged, and when an input power supply of the product is cut off, the detection control circuit detects that an input voltage of the product drops to a set value and triggers the control circuit to drive a switch transistor to be turned on, so that the energy of an energy storage capacitor is released, thereby keeping the product working continuously for a period of time. The power-loss delay circuit and the detection control circuit thereof have no effect on the normal working state of the product. When the input power is cut off, capacitance stored in an external capacitor is introduced in time to keep the product working continuously.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: MORNSUN GUANGZHOU SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Mengyang Xu, Dongsheng Lan, Gang Feng
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Patent number: 12204357Abstract: The present disclosure provides a low dropout (LDO) circuit. The LDO circuit includes an input terminal, an output terminal, a cascode operational amplifier, and a power stage. The cascode operational amplifier is electrically connected to the input terminal. The power stage has a first terminal electrically connected to the input terminal, a second terminal electrically connected to an output node of the cascode operational amplifier, and a third terminal electrically connected to the output terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.Inventor: Yi-Hsiang Wang
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Patent number: 12199515Abstract: A power management device is disclosed, including a first DC-DC converter coupled to a first output voltage line, a second DC-DC converter coupled to a second output voltage line, a first set of switches associated with the first DC-DC converter, and a second set of switches associated with the second DC-DC converter. The power management device may further include a controller configured to toggle one or more switches of the first set of switches and one or more switches of the second set of switches, and a multi-mode radio-frequency front-end block communicatively coupled to the controller.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.Inventor: David Steven Ripley
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Patent number: 12199521Abstract: A synchronous full-bridge rectifier circuit includes: a first high-side transistor, a first low-side transistor, a second high-side transistor and a second low-side transistor which are configured to generate a DC power source from an AC power source, wherein the first high-side transistor and the first low-side transistor are coupled to a live wire of the AC power source, and the second high-side transistor and the second low-side transistor are coupled to a neutral wire of the AC power source; a first detection transistor, coupled to the live wire and configured to generate a first detection signal; and a second detection transistor, coupled to the neutral wire configured to generate a second detection signal; wherein the first low-side transistor is turned on after the body-diode of the first low-side transistor is turned on; the second low-side transistor is turned on after the body-diode of the second low-side transistor is turned on.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Ta-Yung Yang, Yu-Chang Chen
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Patent number: 12191781Abstract: A parallel operation connecting device includes a control switch, a concentrator, a first connector and a second connector; the concentrator is connected between an alternating current power supply and the first connector and the second connector to form two identical alternating current lines, and on-off of both the two alternating current lines is controlled by the control switch; the control switch is configured to simultaneously switch on the two alternating current lines when the first connector is connected to the first energy storage inverter and the second connector is connected to the second energy storage inverter and simultaneously switch off the two alternating current lines when the first connector is disconnected from the first energy storage inverter and/or when the second connector is disconnected from the second energy storage inverter.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: SHENZHEN POWEROAK NEWENER CO., LTDInventors: Jianhua Lei, Yongliang You, Geng Qin, Hui Ma, Zhongping Meng
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Patent number: 12191657Abstract: A method and a system sense at least one phase difference between at least two phases of a group of parallel connected three phase AC output terminals (e.g., a first phase AC output terminal, a second phase AC output terminal, or a third phase AC output terminal). The parallel connected AC output terminals may be three parallel connected DC to AC three phase inverters. Features of the parallel connected three phase AC output terminals enable wiring of conductors to one phase of an AC output terminal to be swapped with wiring of conductors of one phase of another phase AC output terminal. A sign of at least one phase difference is verified different from signs of other phase differences thereby the system determining the lateral position of the at least one three phase inverters relative to at least one other of the three phase inverters.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Solaredge Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Omer Aloni, Alon Zohar, Tzachi Glovinsky, Menashe Walsh
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Patent number: 12185438Abstract: A resonant inverter has a switch network from which a phase signal is provided representing the phase of the switching signal. A resonant tank circuit is coupled to the first switch network output and provides a feedback signal comprising a resonance voltage across a circuit element of the resonant tank circuit. A reference current to be drawn from the input node is set and a reference phase is set based on the reference current. The switching signal for the switch network is controlled based on a phase difference between the resonance voltage and the phase signal, and based on the reference phase. This resonant inverter employs a phase modulation scheme as the control scheme for the switch network of a resonant inverter. This approach is suited for high and very high frequency operation of resonant converters, for example up to tens of MHz.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.Inventor: Reinhold Elferich
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Patent number: 12184168Abstract: A switched capacitor voltage converter circuit includes: a switched capacitor converter and a control circuit; wherein the control circuit adjusts operation frequencies and/or duty ratios of operation signals which control switches of the switched capacitor converter, so as to adjust a ratio of a first voltage to a second voltage to a predetermined ratio. When the control circuit decreases the duty ratios of the operation signals, if a part of the switches of the switched capacitor converter are turned ON, an inductor current flowing toward the second voltage is in a first state; if the inductor current continues to flow via a current freewheeling path, the inductor current flowing toward the second voltage becomes in a second state. A corresponding inductor is thereby switched between the first state and the second state to perform inductive power conversion.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Kuo-Chi Liu, Ta-Yung Yang, Chung-Lung Pai
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Patent number: 12184188Abstract: An example method may include: determining a transformer turns ratio and resonant frequency of a converter; determining datasets of peak current and output current of a secondary side diode, an excitation current of a primary excitation inductor when the secondary side diode is off, and an excitation current of the primary excitation inductor when a primary side driving signal is off; measuring a operating frequency and output current of the converter; determining coefficients equal to a ratio of the output current to the peak current multiplied by ? 2 , and a ratio of an excitation current of the primary excitation inductor when the secondary side diode is off to an excitation current of the primary excitation inductor when the primary side driving signal is off; measuring a resonant current initial value of a primary resonant inductor; and based on all these, calculating a diode on-time.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventor: Hua Liao
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Patent number: 12176826Abstract: An inverter driving apparatus includes an inverter having a plurality of legs respectively corresponding to each of a plurality of phases and the control unit generating space vector modulation signals based on a phase voltage command, each of the space vector modulation signals corresponding to each of the plurality of phases, respectively, determining whether an output voltage of the inverter corresponding to at least one space vector modulation signal of the space vector modulation is in a non-linear region by determining whether each voltage of the space vector modulation signals is included in a predetermined range, generating a terminal voltage command by determining whether or not to apply an offset voltage to each of the space vector modulation signals based on the determination of the non-linear region, and controlling a turn-on state of at least one switch included in each of the plurality of legs by modulating the terminal voltage command based on pulse width modulation.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Hyun Jae Lim, Yong Jae Lee, Young Ho Chae, Young Kwan Ko, Young Gi Lee
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Patent number: 12176827Abstract: To allow reliable current measurement of the output current of the switching stage of an inverter, especially at switching frequencies of the semiconductor switches in the 100 kHz range, a voltage at the choke is measured and integrated over time to be representative for the leg current in the choke. The time integral is processed in a processing unit, whereas the processed time integral is used in an inverter controller for controlling the inverter. The voltage at the choke is analogously integrated over time by two serially connected integrator capacitors, whereas across each of the integrator capacitors a reset switch is provided, for alternately resetting the corresponding integrator capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Fronius International GmbHInventors: Philipp Luger, Friedrich Oberzaucher
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Patent number: 12170490Abstract: A frequency converter includes a monitoring unit that has respective first drive signals of gate drivers of a bidirectional power converter applied to it and that is designed to detect the failure of at least one mains phase of a three-phase AC grid voltage that is supplied to the bidirectional power converter based on a temporal profile of the respective first drive signals.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Lenze Swiss AGInventor: Andreas Burgermeister
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Patent number: 12166427Abstract: An inverter converts power outputted from a distributed power supply into AC power, and outputs to an AC system. An inverter control circuit generates an AC voltage target value at a time of controlling the inverter, and generates a command value for control of the inverter as a voltage source. When the inverter is introduced into the AC system, the inverter control circuit sets a frequency of the AC voltage target value to a frequency of an AC voltage detected by an AC frequency detection circuit, and controls a phase of the AC voltage target value to be at least a leading phase with respect to the AC voltage of the AC system when a target value of the AC power is in a running direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Sadayuki Inoue
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Patent number: 12166428Abstract: An example converter for a switched reluctance (SR) generator includes one or more gate driver circuits that are not only used to synchronously control switches, such as insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) of the converter, but also used to provide priming function during start-up of the generator. Since, an SR generator does not have to ability to self provide magnetic flux, priming current is provided to coils of the SR generator to initiate a magnetic flux. By using the gate drive circuit to provide the priming current, an additional priming circuit is not required. As a result, the converter design is more streamlined, with reduced complexity, cost, and size. When a bus voltage of the converter is below a threshold level, the one or more gate drive circuits can provide the priming current on the bus to initiate the SR generator.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventor: Eric M. Andris
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Patent number: 12157401Abstract: A solar ECU serving as a power generation control apparatus includes a solar DC-DC converter, an auxiliary DC-DC converter, an adjustment unit, and a correction unit. The solar DC-DC converter has an input side to which a solar panel mounted on a vehicle is connected. The auxiliary DC-DC converter has an input side to which an output side of the solar DC-DC converter is connected, and an output side to which an auxiliary battery is connected. The adjustment unit is configured to adjust an output power of the auxiliary DC-DC converter such that a voltage between the solar DC-DC converter and the auxiliary DC-DC converter becomes a predetermined value through control based on a predetermined control parameter. The correction unit is configured to correct the control parameter.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takahiro Utsunomiya
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Patent number: 12160171Abstract: The present invention is a switching circuit driving method for power converters and its driving module. Such driving method and driving module can avoid the occurrence of valley jumping by replacing the original blanking time with a front blanking time or a back blanking time when a valley jumping occurs in the system, and avoid the noise problem caused by valley jumping.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Infsitronix Technology CorporationInventors: Chung-Jye Hsu, Yuan-Kai Cheng, Chun-Chiang Chen
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Patent number: 12155314Abstract: An example apparatus includes: a first diode having a first diode terminal; a transformer having a transformer terminal; a second diode having a second diode terminal and a third diode terminal, the second diode terminal coupled to the transformer terminal; a first switch having a first current terminal and a second current terminal, the first current terminal coupled to the first diode terminal, the second current terminal coupled to the third diode terminal; a second switch having a third current terminal, the third current terminal coupled to the second diode terminal and the transformer terminal; a capacitor having a first capacitor terminal and a second capacitor terminal, the first capacitor terminal coupled to the second current terminal; and a third diode having a fourth diode terminal and a fifth diode terminal, the fourth diode terminal coupled to the first capacitor terminal, the fifth diode terminal coupled to the capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventor: Isaac Cohen
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Patent number: 12155377Abstract: A switching circuit includes a high-side transistor and a low-side transistor, each of which is of an N-channel type. A switch and a rectifying element of a PMOS transistor are provided in series between a constant voltage line through which a constant voltage is supplied and a bootstrap line. A comparison circuit operates using a high-side power supply voltage, which is a potential difference between the bootstrap line and a switching line, as a power supply to generate a detection signal indicating a magnitude relationship between the high-side power supply voltage and a threshold voltage. A level shift circuit level-shifts the detection signal down to a signal of which a ground voltage is low. A PMOS driver drives the switch asynchronously with switching of the low-side transistor in response to an output of the level shift circuit.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroki Niikura
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Patent number: 12149168Abstract: A T-type inductor-capacitor-inductor (LCL) resonant converter and its soft switching modulation method under a full power range. A full bridge inverter circuit is provided at a primary side of a T-type inductor-capacitor-inductor (LCL) resonant converter. The full bridge inverter circuit includes four metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistors. A half bridge rectifier circuit is provided at a secondary side of the T-type LCL resonant converter, and the half bridge rectifier circuit includes two MOS transistors and two equalizing capacitors. The soft switching modulation method for the T-type LCL resonant converter under a full power range is provided based on the T-type LCL resonant converter. The soft switching modulation method requires all switching transistors to operate at a duty cycle of 50% within one cycle. A high-frequency alternating voltage of the primary side has a symmetrical waveform, and a high-frequency alternating voltage of the secondary side has a square waveform.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2024Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Changshu Institute of TechnologyInventors: Song Hu, Rui Wang, Huigang Xu, Jicheng Liu, Yong Yang
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Patent number: 12149158Abstract: A multi-phase power system configured to add and remove phases according to a plurality of states can increase the efficiency of the power system, which can increase a battery life in mobile applications. After phases are shed, a load may quickly change requiring all phases to be activated before an over current protection triggers a shutdown. The response of the power system to these load transients may be improved through the use of multiple triggers, which can provide an early warning of the changing load requirements more accurately and consistently than a single trigger.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Margaret Spillane, Kieran Burke, Gary Dillon