Patents Examined by Rafael O De Leon Domenech
  • Patent number: 12294307
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing auxiliary transformer winding turns are disclosed. In one aspect, a circuit includes a transformer having a primary winding, a secondary winding and an auxiliary winding having a first end and a second end, a diode having a cathode and an anode, the anode coupled to the first end of the auxiliary winding, and a capacitor having a first terminal coupled to the second end of the auxiliary winding, and a second terminal coupled to the cathode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NA VITAS SEMICONDUCTOR LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiucheng Huang, Bin Li, Weijing Du, Yun Zhou
  • Patent number: 12294292
    Abstract: A power converter having a feedback voltage adjusting mechanism for a negative voltage is provided. Input terminals of an operational amplifier are respectively connected to a zero voltage and a first terminal of a first resistor. A second terminal of the first resistor is connected to a second terminal of a low-side switch. A first current source is connected to an output terminal of the operational amplifier and a first terminal of a second resistor. A second terminal of the second resistor is connected to the first terminal of the first resistor. The first current source outputs a first current according to a signal output by the operational amplifier. A second current source outputs a second current being m times the first current and is connected to a first terminal of a third resistor. A voltage of the first terminal of the third resistor is a feedback voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ming-Liang Tsai
  • Patent number: 12289047
    Abstract: A circuit includes a first rectifier having a first rectifier input and a first rectifier output. The circuit also includes a bridge circuit and a second rectifier. The bridge circuit is coupled to the first rectifier output. The bridge circuit has first, second, third, and fourth terminals. The first and second terminals are coupled to the first rectifier output, and the third and fourth terminals are adapted to be coupled to a primary winding of a transformer. The second rectifier has a second rectifier input and a second rectifier output. The second rectifier input is adapted to be coupled to a secondary winding of the transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Navaneeth Kumar Narayanasamy, Manu Balakrishnan
  • Patent number: 12283886
    Abstract: A first flying capacitor circuit and a second flying capacitor circuit are connected in series so as to be in parallel to a high voltage side DC part. A reactor is connected to a positive side terminal of a low voltage side DC part and a midpoint of the first flying capacitor circuit. A midpoint of the second flying capacitor circuit is connected to a negative side terminal of the low voltage side DC part. A node between the first flying capacitor circuit and the second flying capacitor circuit is connected to an intermediate potential node of the high voltage side DC part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoaki Fujii
  • Patent number: 12278562
    Abstract: A biphasic Dickson switched capacitor converter includes an auxiliary circuit, a first branch and a second branch, the auxiliary circuit is connected between the first branch and the second branch, and electric charges at one of the first branch and the second branch are transferred to another of the first branch and the second branch by controlling the auxiliary circuit during a dead time when primary power transistors are turned off to realize the primary power transistors turn on at zero voltage and reduce a switching loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Southchip Semiconductor Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xing Liang, Wei Zhao
  • Patent number: 12273048
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose an inverter apparatus and an inverter apparatus control method. The inverter apparatus includes an inverter circuit and a control unit, and the control unit detects a driving mode of the inverter circuit based on a running state of the inverter circuit. When the inverter circuit outputs reactive power and an output current amplitude is greater than a current threshold, the control unit controls the inverter circuit in a full-bridge two-level bipolar control mode; and in other cases, the control unit controls the inverter circuit in a three-level control mode. This reduces a risk of breaking down horizontal bridge semiconductor switching devices by a voltage spike in an active turn-off process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI DIGITAL POWER TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Chen, Yanzhong Zhang, Lei Shi
  • Patent number: 12273028
    Abstract: A resonant asymmetrical half-bridge flyback power converter includes: a first transistor and a second transistor switching a transformer coupled to a capacitor for generating an output power; a voltage divider coupled to an auxiliary winding of the transformer; a differential sensing circuit which includes a first terminal and a second terminal coupled to the voltage divider to sense an auxiliary signal generated by the auxiliary winding for generating a peak signal and a demagnetization-time signal; and a PWM control circuit configured to generate a first PWM signal and a second PWM signal in accordance with the peak signal and the demagnetization-time signal, for controlling the first transistor and the second transistor respectively; wherein a period of an enabling state of the demagnetization-time signal is correlated to the output power level; wherein the peak signal is related to a quasi-resonance of the transformer after the transformer is demagnetized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Richtek Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Ta-Yung Yang, Yu-Chang Chen, Hsin-Yi Wu, Kun-Yu Lin
  • Patent number: 12273041
    Abstract: This bidirectional DC-DC converter comprises: a transformer; a first bridge circuit for converting DC power and AC power to each other which are input and output between a first DC power supply and the primary side of the transformer; a second bridge circuit for converting DC power and AC power to each other which are input and output between a second DC power supply and the secondary side of the transformer; a first resonant circuit connectable between the first bridge circuit and the primary side of the transformer; a second resonant circuit connectable between the second bridge circuit and the secondary side of the transformer; a first bypass switch for switching the connection state of the first resonant circuit between the first bridge circuit and the primary side of the transformer; a second bypass switch for switching the connection state of the second resonant circuit between the second bridge circuit and the secondary side of the transformer; and a control unit for controlling each of the first bypas
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Abhijit Choudhury, Akihiko Kanouda
  • Patent number: 12266469
    Abstract: A three-phase autotransformer including three output groups and three inputs each connected to each of the outputs of a respective output group by windings, the windings being configured so that, when each input has a respective input voltage applied thereto, the three input voltages having the same input amplitude, being 120° out of phase with each other and defining a neutral point: for each output group, a main output voltage, taken between a main output of said output group and the neutral point, has an amplitude greater than the input amplitude; and output voltages of the autotransformer belong to a same Reuleaux polygon, each output voltage being associated with a respective output and being equal to a voltage between said output and the neutral point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventor: Rémy Biaujaud
  • Patent number: 12267010
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a switching power circuit compares a reference voltage with a feedback voltage of an output voltage, and controls the output voltage in accordance with the reference voltage, in which in a case where the output current is greater than a predetermined set current, the voltage of the reference voltage is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Toshimasa Namekawa, Ryoma Matsuo, Katsumasa Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12255535
    Abstract: An electronic device with a boost circuit includes: a first capacitor including a first terminal connected to an input terminal and a second terminal connected to a reference potential terminal; a first rectification element; a second capacitor including a first terminal connected to the first terminal of the first capacitor through the first rectification element and a second terminal connected to the reference potential terminal; a voltage detection circuit including a voltage detection terminal connected to the first terminal of the second capacitor and a detection signal output terminal; and a boost circuit including a detection signal input terminal connected to the detection signal output terminal, a boost power input terminal connected to the first terminal of the first capacitor, and a boost power output terminal connected to a node between the first terminal of the second capacitor and the voltage detection terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: ABLIC Inc.
    Inventors: Fumiyasu Utsunomiya, Takakuni Douseki, Ami Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12255527
    Abstract: A method of controlling a switching power supply comprises: generating a pulse train; applying the pulse train to a switching transistor of the switching power supply to cause switching of the switching transistor on and off to convert an input voltage applied to the switching transistor to an output voltage, which rises while switching the switching transistor on and off and falls while not switching the switching transistor on and off; and performing hysteretic voltage control of the output voltage by first controlling dropping pulses of the pulse train so that the output voltage remains between hysteretic voltage thresholds including an overvoltage threshold and an undervoltage threshold that is less than the overvoltage threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: L3Harris Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Justin Malcolm Graves
  • Patent number: 12249917
    Abstract: A power converter includes an input coupled to an inductor, a first switch coupled to a first comparator, and a second switch coupled to a second comparator. The power converter also includes a pulse comparison counter coupled to the first comparator and the second comparator and a synchronous rectifier (SR) calculator coupled to the pulse comparison counter. The synchronous rectifier calculator is operable to modify a conduction time of the first switch during a first AC half-cycle and modify a conduction time of the second switch during a second AC half-cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventor: Anders Lind
  • Patent number: 12249915
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments may include an integrated circuit (IC) for controlling a switched-capacitor power converter for converting voltage between first and second nodes to voltage between third and fourth nodes for use with a first plurality of switches, a second plurality of switches, a plurality of capacitors, and a plurality of resonance modules. The IC may include a controller that is configured to control the first plurality of switches to be closed and the second plurality of switches to be open to electrically connect the first node to the third node through a first one of the plurality of capacitors in series with a first one of the plurality of resonance modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: David Giuliano
  • Patent number: 12244170
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a voltage conversion circuit, a control method, a DC/DC converter and a device. The voltage conversion circuit includes a failure isolation module, a soft start module, and a voltage conversion module. The voltage conversion module includes an output filter capacitor. Both a first terminal of the failure isolation module and a first terminal of the soft start module are connected to a positive electrode of a first battery, both a second terminal of the failure isolation module and a second terminal of the soft start module are connected to a first terminal of the output filter capacitor, and a second terminal of the output filter capacitor is connected to a negative electrode of the first battery. The soft start module is configured to connect the first battery and the output filter capacitor, so that the first battery charges the output filter capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao Liang, Weiping Liu, Ren Liu, Dong Li
  • Patent number: 12244230
    Abstract: A switched-mode power supply and a control circuit for use in a switched-mode power supply are disclosed. In addition to an EA module, a PWM comparator module and a soft-start voltage generation module, the control circuit also includes an amplitude limiter module for limiting the amplitude of an EA signal based on a soft-start reference voltage and thereby enabling the amplitude of a signal input to the PWM comparator module from the EA module to follow a soft-start control signal and vary stably and smoothly. This can reduce the risk of output voltage and inductor current overshoots due to DC loop establishment during startup of the switched-mode power supply, enhance stability and safety of the power supply system during startup, and accelerate the DC loop establishment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: SHANGHAI BRIGHT POWER SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Danzhu Lv
  • Patent number: 12237773
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes transmitting multi-phase pulse power from power sourcing equipment to a powered device in a data center, wherein the multi-phase pulse power comprises multiple phases of power delivered in a sequence of pulses defined by alternating low direct current voltage states and high direct current voltage states, and synchronizing the pulses at the power sourcing equipment with the pulses at the powered device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Anthony O'Brien, Joel Richard Goergen, Chad M. Jones, Jason DeWayne Potterf, George Allan Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 12231044
    Abstract: A power management circuit for computer systems includes a power converter circuit that generates different voltage levels at different time periods. Multiple voltage regulator circuits are coupled to the output of the power converter circuit and to respective local power supply nodes. Switch devices are used to bypass the voltage regulator circuits during corresponding ones of the different time periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Zyuban, Jay B. Fletcher, Hao Zhou
  • Patent number: 12231051
    Abstract: At a first node, an intermediate voltage potential occurs between a voltage potential of the first input terminal and a voltage potential of the second input terminal A second node is connected to ends of primary windings of transformers of LLC resonant converters. A switch circuit is connected between the first node and the second node. A control circuit is configured to turn on a switch circuit when a load current of a load apparatus connected to a first output terminal and a second output terminal is equal to or smaller than a predetermined criterion and turn off the switch circuit when the load current of the load apparatus is larger than the predetermined criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuru Sato, Shingo Nagaoka, Takeshi Uematsu
  • Patent number: 12224667
    Abstract: A voltage regulation apparatus and an overcurrent protection method are disclosed. The voltage regulation apparatus includes a current detection control circuit, a power stage circuit, a voltage input terminal, and a voltage output terminal. The power stage circuit includes at least one transistor. Because a current parameter indicates a load current of the at least one transistor, and a plurality of preset overcurrent protection thresholds are dynamic overcurrent protection thresholds obtained after being preset based on temperature information and the like, after obtaining the current parameter, the current detection control circuit compares the current parameter with the plurality of preset overcurrent protection thresholds, to output a control signal, to implement a limiting operation on the current parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhangrong Hu, Xuegang Yang, Kun Wu, Yi Wang