Patents Issued in June 21, 2016
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Patent number: 9373972Abstract: The present inventions, in one aspect, are directed to techniques and/or circuitry to adaptively charge a battery/cell using data which is representative of a change in terminal voltage of the battery/cell. In another aspect, the present inventions are directed to techniques and/or circuitry to adaptively charge a battery/cell using data which is representative of partial and/or full relaxation time of the battery/cell. In yet another aspect the present inventions are directed to techniques and/or circuitry to determine whether the data which is representative of partial and/or full relaxation time exceeds a predetermined range and/or is greater than a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2015Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Qnovo Inc.Inventors: Dania Ghantous, Nadim Maluf, Fred Berkowitz
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Patent number: 9373973Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus, a system, and a method of preventing a battery rack from being damaged by measuring a current, which, when a battery module is abnormally connected with a relay in some battery racks in installing the relay, which conducts or blocks a current flowing in the battery rack including a plurality of battery modules so that a current exceeding a predetermined current limit value flows in the battery rack, prevent a short-circuit phenomenon, by controlling an operation state of the relay before the battery rack and the relay form a short circuit, and prevent capacitance imbalance between the battery racks by controlling an operation state of the relay when a voltage difference between a plurality of battery racks exceeds a predetermined voltage difference.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventor: Jongbum Lee
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Patent number: 9373974Abstract: A portable device recharging system includes a base unit generating an electromagnetic field. A portable device includes a rechargeable battery inductively charged by the electromagnetic field. Spacers are disposed between the portable device and the base unit. The spacers support the portable device and maintain an air gap between the base unit and the portable device.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Shailendra Kaushik, Taeyoung Han, Dan Lascu, Jerome M. Stolicki, Xianxi Jin, Bahram Khalighi
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Patent number: 9373975Abstract: An electronic device, an electronic system, and a wireless charging method are provided. The electronic device has a housing, which has an operating surface on which a display unit or an input device is provided and a first end surface adjoining the operating surface at a first edge. The operating surface has an area greater than that of the first end surface. The electronic device also has a coil for electromagnetic induction. The coil is provided in a first side portion of the housing close to the first end surface, and formed in a columnar shape with an axis substantially parallel to the first edge.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITEDInventor: Zhiqiang Zhou
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Patent number: 9373976Abstract: A device charging system that uses the fact that individual devices do not need to be continuously charged for an extended charging period in order to be fully charged at the end of the period. With automatic timing and switching, different devices can be charged at different times during the charging period with the result that all the devices are fully charged at the end of the period. Several charging power boxes that fit into one or more charging cabinets that are controlled by one or more timers. Each charging power box also includes a heat sensor and circuit breaker. User appliances or electronic devices can be stacked in the cabinets, plugged into numerous outlets available on the charging power boxes and then locked inside the cabinet for overnight charging and security. Any abnormal rise in temperature within the cabinet can shut down the entire charging process.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Lucasey Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Edward L. O'Neill
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Patent number: 9373977Abstract: Methods and systems supply uninterrupted power to a load using a backup battery module. A driver circuit connects the load and the backup battery module such that the operational range of the load voltage is narrower than the operational range of the battery voltage. Different charging and discharging paths of the driver circuit may be used to limit the DC bus voltage to values lower than the battery voltage. The proposed systems and methods can increase power efficiency and decrease the cost of power supply and conversion operations.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2015Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Sangsun Kim, Pascal Kam
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Patent number: 9373978Abstract: An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) apparatus is disclosed that can receive power from different electrical utility configurations. The input stage of the UPS includes a three phase rectifier bridge design having three legs configured for connection to the different electrical utility configurations. An advantage that may be realized in the practice of some disclosed embodiments of the UPS input stage is that a single UPS can have the flexibility to be used with different electrical utility configurations having different voltages and phases.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christian van Kalken, Sanjay Agrawal
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Patent number: 9373979Abstract: Systems and methods of operating uninterruptible power supplies in parallel in a power distribution system to provide power to a load are provided. At least one uninterruptible power supply inverter provides power to the load. A communication interface provides a measured value of at least one of inverter output current of a first uninterruptible power supply and a measured value of the load current to a second uninterruptible power supply, and receives a measured value of at least one of inverter output current of the second uninterruptible power supply and the load current. A controller controls the uninterruptible power supplies to operate in one of a master state and a slave state.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATIONInventors: Rajesh Ghosh, Mahima Agrawal, Pradeep Tolakanahalli, Damir Klikic
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Patent number: 9373980Abstract: In a power protection and distribution assembly a trip system monitors electrical current and sends a current status signal to an arc flash protection system indicating whether current characteristic of an arc event is detected. The arc flash protection system evaluates this current status signal along with a light status signal indicating whether light characteristic of an arc event has been detected. Based on this evaluation, the arc flash protection system sends a control signal to the trip system for controlling the trip system to trip a breaker. The systems each include a full-duplex signaling module for sending the signals between the systems over a pair of conductors. Each signaling module sends one of the signals by modulating the magnitude of a current through or a voltage across the conductors, and receives the other signal by demodulating the magnitude of the current through or the voltage across the conductors, as distinctively modulated by the other signaling module.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC USA, INC.Inventors: Julius Michael Liptak, John Kenneth Mackenzie, IV
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Patent number: 9373981Abstract: Provided is a stator of a motor which is capable of reducing a loss generated in a motor and thereby attaining a high-efficient motor, and a motor including the stator. A stator of a motor comprises a stator core including a plurality of plate members stacked together; the stator core including: a yoke of a tubular shape; and teeth each of which includes an extending portion extending inward in a radial direction of the yoke from the yoke and an increased-width portion formed at a tip end of the extending portion so as to have a greater width than the extending portion in a circumferential direction of the yoke; wherein the extending portion has a constant-width portion extending radially in a straight-line shape so as to have a constant circumferential width, a narrower portion having a smaller circumferential width than the constant-width portion, and a clamp portion for securing the plurality of plate members to each other; and wherein the clamp portion is provided in the constant-width portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Ogawa, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Ikuo Ozaki, Toshiyuki Tamamura, Hirokazu Yamauchi
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Patent number: 9373982Abstract: A tubular body for an electrical machine is provided. The tubular body comprises a curved surface area, a first tooth and a second tooth. The tubular body is arrangable with respect to a further tubular body such that one of the tubular body or the further tubular body is rotatable with respect to the other one around a rotary axis. The first tooth and the second tooth extend from the curved surface area along a radial direction with respect to the rotary axis. The first tooth comprises a first side wall facing a second side wall of the second tooth, wherein the first side wall comprises a first section which is parallel to the second side wall such that a circumferential distance between the first section and the second side wall is constant along the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Lijian Wu, Zhen Ping Xia
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Patent number: 9373983Abstract: A rotating electrical machine comprising an armature; a yoke; and a plurality of magnets arrayed in a ring shape along an inner peripheral face of the yoke. The magnets are respectively formed in circular arc shapes fit with the inner peripheral face of the yoke, and are fixed to the yoke. The magnets are arrayed along the circumferential direction of the yoke with gaps between each other, a central portion in a circumferential direction of each of the magnets is disposed so as to be opposed in a yoke diameter direction to the gap between other magnets arrayed adjacent to each other, a boundary portion between a pair of magnetic poles in each of the magnets is positioned at central position in the circumferential direction of each of the magnets, and each of the magnets is formed thicker at end portions than at the central portion in the circumferential direction thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: ASMO CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeo Noda, Tsuyoshi Kinoshita
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Patent number: 9373984Abstract: An apparatus, such as an electrical machine, is provided. The apparatus can include a rotor defining a rotor bore and a conduit disposed in and extending axially along the rotor bore. The conduit can have an annular conduit body defining a plurality of orifices disposed axially along the conduit and extending through the conduit body. The rotor can have an inner wall that at least partially defines the rotor bore. The orifices can extend through the conduit body along respective orifice directions, and the rotor and conduit can be configured to provide a line of sight along the orifice direction from the respective orifices to the inner wall.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2011Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Hendrik Pieter Jacobus De Bock, James Pellegrino Alexander, Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie, William Dwight Gerstler, Manoj Ramprasad Shah, Xiaochun Shen
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Patent number: 9373985Abstract: A stator includes an annular stator core and a three-phase stator coil. The stator coil is comprised of a plurality of star-connected phase windings. The stator coil further has a plurality of interphase bridging wires to electrically connect neutral point-side ends of the phase windings to each other. The interphase bridging wires are arranged on a coil end of the stator coil. At least one of the interphase bridging wires is made up of at least one busbar. The busbar includes three or four connecting end portions each having a joining surface joined to one of the phase windings, other bridging wires and other busbars. The connecting end portions are arranged so that some of the joining surfaces of the connecting end portions face substantially in the circumferential direction of the stator core, while the other joining surfaces face substantially in a radial direction of the stator core.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shinsuke Sugiura, Yuki Takahashi, Masahiro Seguchi
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Patent number: 9373986Abstract: An electric motor assembly that eliminates external component-to-component assembly seams between coupled packaging hardware that would inhibit the creation and maintenance of, for example, IP 66 and IP 67 seals while utilizing inexpensive existing motor shaft rear bearing supports and also creating additional internal electronic packaging space. The disclosure provides an assembly with a continuous (e.g., no interruptions or seams) surface area to support IP sealing of the entire packaging-to-package interface between a primary motor frame (e.g., housing) and externally attached secondary/ancillary electronic hardware.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Edward F. Quade, Shawn Cloran, John S. Lindblom, Corey J. Risty
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Patent number: 9373987Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for using an engine flywheel can provide both electric power output and braking of powered equipment. In particular, an engine flywheel can include a first rotor element configured to be coupled to a drive shaft for rotation with the drive shaft, one or more magnets carried by the first rotor element, the one or more magnets being configured for positioning with respect to a stator to generate electrical current upon rotation of the first rotor element, and a second rotor element configured to be coupled to the drive shaft for rotation with the drive shaft, the second rotor element including a braking surface configured for engagement with a braking element to slow the rotation of the second rotor element.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tyler Isaac Ricketts
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Patent number: 9373988Abstract: Cooling assemblies, such as those configured to cool electric machines (e.g., electric motors and generators) and components of electric machines (e.g., rotors and stators).Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: TECO-Westinghouse Motor CompanyInventors: Devdatta P. Kulkarni, Gabriel Rupertus, Edward Kuan-Chen Chen, Ramon Guitart, Lex Ramsey
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Patent number: 9373989Abstract: An electrical machine such as an alternator or starter-alternator for a motor vehicle which is fitted with the one-piece voltage-regulator/brush-holder assembly (1). The brush-holder (6) is capable of guiding at least first and second brushes by means of respective first and second longitudinal recesses (7). The recesses are substantially parallelepiped, made of an electrically insulating material and extend substantially in an axial plane of a rotor of the machine. Each recess is provided with at least one respective longitudinal internal groove (9) in communication with at least one channel (11) provided in a body (6) of the assembly (1), in an axial direction (XX?) of the rotor, and intended for a coolant (8) to pass therethrough. A first cross section of the first internal groove is between 5% and 7% of a second cross section of the recesses.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2011Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques MoteurInventors: Gregory Godefroy, Pierre Tisserand, Christophe Dugue, Khalid Sassane
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Patent number: 9373990Abstract: A carbon brush with a disconnection apparatus in a cavity in a brush body includes a disconnection body and a prestressed compression-spring body. The disconnection body consists of an electrically insulating material, and the prestressed compression-spring body is configured to act resiliently on the disconnection body. The compression-spring body is formed together with the disconnection body as a short component with a short axial length. In one embodiment, the compression-spring body is in the form of a spring with a plurality of spring turns which, at least in the prestressed, compressed state, are at least partially located one inside the other, shortening them.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2011Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Manfred Lutz
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Patent number: 9373991Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laminated iron core is provided. A laminated iron core body including a permanent magnet inserted into a magnet-insert hole is arranged between a molding die and a holding die. A cull plate is arranged between the molding die and the laminated iron core body. The cull plate has a groove shaped runner directed toward the magnet-insert hole from a resin reservoir and provided with a gate hole communicating with the magnet-insert hole, and a through hole which vertically passes through the cull plate is formed in the runner of the cull plate at a different position from a position of the gate hole. After the magnet-insert hole is filled with the mold resin a resin residue remaining in the cull plate is pushed off and removed from the gate hole and the through hole.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: MITSUI HIGH-TEC, INC.Inventor: Hirotoshi Mabu
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Patent number: 9373992Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor is configured by a rotor core and magnetic poles. Two or more types of permanent magnets are used such that each product of coercivity and thickness in the magnetization direction becomes different. A stator is located outside the rotor with air gap therebetween and configured by an armature core winding. At least one permanent magnet is magnetized by a magnetic field by a current of the armature winding to change a magnetic flux content thereof irreversibly. A short circuited coil is provided to surround a magnetic path portion of the other permanent magnet excluding the magnet changed irreversibly and a portion adjacent to the other permanent magnet where the magnetic flux leaks. A short-circuit current is generated in the short circuited coil by the magnetic flux generated by conducting a magnetization current to the winding. A magnetic field is generated by the short-circuit current.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yutaka Hashiba, Kazuto Sakai, Norio Takahashi, Kazuaki Yuuki, Masanori Arata, Yusuke Matsuoka, Motoyasu Mochizuki, Tadashi Tokumasu
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Patent number: 9373993Abstract: A haptic actuator (20(X)) provides compact mounting for a haptically-actuated assembly by mounting at least a portion of the haptically-actuated assembly to magnetic circuit members of the haptic actuator. The haptic actuator comprises a first magnetic member (62); a second magnetic member (60); a field generator (30); and a resilient connector (70). The first magnetic member (62) is configured to have a driven part (124) of the haptically-actuated assembly mounted to the first magnetic member (62). The second magnetic member (60) is selectively separated by at least one air gap from the first magnetic member (62) and is configured to have a stationary part of the haptically-actuated assembly (122) connected to the second magnetic member (62). The second magnetic member (60) is positioned at least partially within the field generator (30) and the first magnetic member (62) is positioned externally to the field generator (30).Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: SAIA-BURGESS, INC.Inventor: James C. Irwin
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Patent number: 9373994Abstract: Apparatus for an electromagnetic engine producing both mechanical and electrical power. The apparatus includes a signal generator, such as a device that plays a pre-recorded signal. The output of the signal generator is connected to an amplifier that is connected to a first coil assembly. The coils are positioned around a cylindrical cavity or sleeve in which a permanent magnet piston reciprocates in response to the amplified signal applied to the coils. A second coil assembly is magnetically coupled to the first coil assembly. The second coil assembly includes a tuned circuit and provides an electrical output. The tuned circuit of the second coil assembly includes a coil and a capacitor selected for a specific frequency.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2015Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Inventor: Gerald Gialdella
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Patent number: 9373995Abstract: The present invention relates to a basic function unit of voltage source converter, which is characterized in that the basic function unit includes a switching device function module, a by-pass function module, a switch protection function module, a secondary control and protection function module, and a energy storage unit. The secondary control and protection function module, the energy storage unit and the by-pass function module are all fixed on the motherboard, there is a slide rail at the bottom of the motherboard, the motherboard can move back and forth on the slide rail. The voltage source converter based on that unit is highly modular, insensitive to switch device parameters, lower output voltage change rate, and smaller dv/dt stress of equipment, smaller noise, without filter, convenient installation and maintenance.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignees: CHINA ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINAInventors: Guangfu Tang, Zhiyuan He, Hongzhou Luan, Qiang Li, Yunpeng Li
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Patent number: 9373996Abstract: An inverting apparatus and a photovoltaic power system using the same are provided. The inverting apparatus includes an inverting circuit, a control circuit, and a voltage regulator-based ground detection circuit. The control circuit controls the power conversion of the inverting circuit. The voltage regulator-based ground detection circuit samples an input voltage of the DC input power, and performs voltage regulation and voltage division on the input voltage to generate a ground indication voltage. The electric potential of the output terminal of the voltage regulator is built based on a photovoltaic ground terminal of a photovoltaic module. The ground indication voltage is the voltage difference between an output terminal of the voltage regulator and a device ground terminal of the inverting apparatus. The control circuit determines whether a ground fault occurs to the photovoltaic module and enables a ground protection mechanism to control the inverting circuit when the ground fault occurs.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2015Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: FSP TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Han-Wei Chen, Chun-Hao Yu, Chia-Hua Liu
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Patent number: 9373997Abstract: A power converting apparatus with dynamical driving adjustment includes a rectifying unit, a power factor correction unit, a power conversion unit and a feedback unit. The rectifying unit rectifies an AC input power to generate and transfer a DC power to the power factor correction unit for performing power factor correction. A power factor correction power is generated and transferred to the power conversion unit. The feedback unit is electrically connected to the power conversion unit to form a closed control loop. A PWM driving controller of the power conversion unit performs an adjustment process to control a switching transistor based on a feedback signal from the feedback unit, and the power conversion unit converts the power factor correction power into an output power supplied to an external load. Thus, the margin for electromagnetic interference is increased, and both switching loss and conduction loss are considerably reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: INNO-TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Shu-Chia Lin, Ching-Yuan Lin, Chih Feng Lin, Wen-Yueh Hsieh
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Patent number: 9373998Abstract: A power conversion device has a power module that switches the ON/OFF state of a switching element and converts and outputs input power, a metal housing that houses the power module, and a conductive member connected to the housing. The conductive member is connected to the housing at a position having a length of n?/4 from the open end. More specifically, “n” is an odd number of 1 or greater, “?” is the wavelength of noise generated by switching the switching element ON or OFF.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kentaro Shin, Kraisorn Throngnumchai
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Patent number: 9373999Abstract: A connection switch control part that, within a voltage change period where an applied voltage to an inverter can be changed by repeatedly and alternately switching to a serial state where a first power supply and a second power supply are connected in series to the inverter and to a parallel state where the first power supply and the second power supply are connected in parallel to the inverter, provides: a first period during which current of either one of the first power supply and the second power supply changes with an increasing trend, and current of the other one changes with a decreasing trend; and a second period during which current of one of the power supplies changes with a decreasing trend and current of the other power supply changes with an increasing trend.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Kurokawa, Toshihiro Sone
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Patent number: 9374000Abstract: A system includes a pulse width modulator and a shift generator. The pulse width modulator receives a saw-tooth signal and generates pulse width modulated pulses based on the saw-tooth signal to regulate an output voltage of a DC-to-DC converter. The shift generator generates a DC voltage in response to a change in an input voltage of the DC-to-DC converter and shifts the saw-tooth signal by the DC voltage to regulate the output voltage of the DC-to-DC converter.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.Inventor: Massimiliano Belloni
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Patent number: 9374001Abstract: Methods and systems for improving load transient response in power conversion systems are provided herein. The system includes a primary stage and a secondary stage, an isolation barrier electrically isolating the primary stage and the secondary stage, and a primary stage controller positioned in the primary stage. The primary stage controller is configured to adjust a step-up converter reference voltage based on a load current signal indicative of a load transient. The load current signal is transmitted from the secondary stage.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2015Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Palanivel Subramaniam, Raghothama Reddy
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Patent number: 9374002Abstract: The present invention related to a switch control circuit, a coupled inductor boost converter including the same, and a driving method thereof. The coupled inductor boost converter includes a first inductor connected between an input voltage and a first node, a second inductor connected between the first node and a second node, and a power switch connected between the first node and a ground, and a switch control circuit. The switch control circuit receives a voltage of the second node and turn on the power switch by using the voltage of the second node at a time when a voltage of the first node becomes a zero voltage.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Fairchild Korea Semiconductor LTDInventors: Jae-Yong Lee, Young Sik Lee, Young-Bae Park, Young-Je Lee, Eunsung Jang
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Patent number: 9374003Abstract: A regulated, power supply system is described using multiphase DC-DC converters with dynamic fast-turnon, slow-turnoff phase shedding, early phase turn-on, and both load-voltage and drive-transistor feedback to pulsewidth modulators to provide fast response to load transients. In an embodiment, a system master can automatically determine whether all, or only some, slave phase units are fully populated. The programmable system includes fault detection with current and voltage sensing, telemetry capability, and automatic shutdown capability. In an embodiment, these are buck-type converters with or without coupled inductors, however some of the embodiments illustrated include boost configurations.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Volterra Semiconductor LLCInventors: Michael D. McJimsey, David B. Lidsky, Andrew Burstein, Giovanni Garcea, Jeremy M. Flasck, Ilija Jergovic, Andrea Pizzutelli
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Patent number: 9374004Abstract: A transmission line interface circuit includes a voltage regulator to control a voltage swing of the transmission line interface circuit for signal transmission. The transmission line interface circuit includes complementary driver elements, including a p-type driver element to pull up the transmission line in response to a logic high, and an n-type driver element to pull down the transmission line in response to a logic low. The voltage regulator is coupled between one of the driver elements and a respective voltage reference to reduce a voltage swing of the transmission line interface circuit.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Christopher P. Mozak, Ritesh B. Trivedi, James A. McCall, Aaron Martin
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Patent number: 9374005Abstract: A DC-DC converter, which provides a converter output voltage using a DC source voltage, is disclosed. The DC-DC converter includes converter control circuitry and a boosting charge pump. The converter control circuitry selects one of a first boost operating mode, a second boost operating mode, and a boost disabled mode based on the DC source voltage. During the boost disabled mode, the boosting charge pump presents a high impedance at a charge pump output of the boosting charge pump. Otherwise, the boosting charge pump provides a charge pump output voltage. During the first boost operating mode, a nominal value of the charge pump output voltage is equal to about one and one-half times the DC source voltage. During the second boost operating mode, a nominal value of the charge pump output voltage is equal to about two times the DC source voltage.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: RF Micro Devices, Inc.Inventors: Ashraf Rozek, Michael R. Kay
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Patent number: 9374006Abstract: A driver circuit includes three non-contiguous high-voltage wells formed within a low-voltage monolithic silicon substrate; a high-side driver circuit fabricated within each of the wells; a separate logic input path for each of the high-side driver circuits, each input path comprising a logic signal input terminal, a signal amplifier, a noise filter, a pulse generator, and a high-voltage level shifter; an output terminal for each driver circuit, each output terminal coupled to its associated driver circuit output through a separate mask-configurable, variable-value output resistor bank, which reduces the number of external components needed for driver circuitry; a startup circuit which prevents operation of an associated high-side switch during periods of line voltage instability; and embedded capacitor banks, each of which is in close proximity to a high-side switch, for reducing capacitive, resistive and inductance losses associated with long metal lines.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Inventors: Edgar Abdoulin, Jong Deog Jeong
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Patent number: 9374007Abstract: Provided is a DC/DC converter that is capable of performing stable control without being affected by noise from an output voltage and without any malfunction and is capable of operating at a relatively constant frequency. The DC/DC converter includes an ON-timer circuit configured to input a control signal, which is synchronized with a signal input to a gate of an output transistor, and output an ON-time signal. The ON-timer circuit includes: a ripple generation circuit configured to generate and output a ripple component based on the control signal; an averaging circuit configured to output a signal obtained by averaging the ripple component; and a timer circuit configured to generate and output the ON-time signal based on the signal of the averaging circuit and the control signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2015Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: SII SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiomi Shiina, Masayuki Uno
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Patent number: 9374008Abstract: The present invention relates to a switching mode power supply and a driving method thereof. In the present invention, a supply voltage is generated by using a start voltage that corresponds to input power, and a switching operation frequency of a power switch is changed according to an increase/decrease of the supply voltage.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2009Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Fairchild Korea Semiconductor Ltd.Inventors: Kyung-Oun Jang, Gyoung-Soo Park, Hyeong-Seok Baek, Se-Hwan Kim
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Patent number: 9374009Abstract: Flyback converters are disclosed herein. An embodiment of a flyback converter includes a transformer having a primary side and a secondary side. A switch is connected to the primary side of the transformer, wherein the switch controls the current in the primary side of the transformer. A resistance is connected between the switch and a common node. The converter also includes a comparator having a first input and a second, the first input being connected between the switch and the resistor. Driver logic controls the state of the switch, wherein the output of the comparator is coupled to the driver logic. A voltage source is connected to the second input of the comparator. An error amplifier compares the voltage at the second input of the comparator to an adjustment voltage, the output of the error amplifier is coupled to the driver logic.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventor: Rosario Stracquadaini
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Patent number: 9374010Abstract: A power adaptor is provided. The power adaptor includes a voltage converter, a connecting port, a first transformer and a controller. The voltage converter receives an input voltage and determines whether to convert the input voltage to an output voltage according to an indicating signal. The first transformer includes a primary side and a secondary side. The primary side and the secondary side are coupled to each other, and a first end and a second end of the secondary side are coupled to the connecting port, respectively. The controller generates the indicating signal according to a voltage at the primary side of the first transformer. The connecting port is used to connect to an electrical device, and when the connecting port is electrically connected to the electrical device, a first end and a second end of the secondary side are short to a reference ground end of the secondary side.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Yu-Cheng Shen, Yu Hung
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Patent number: 9374011Abstract: A secondary controller for use in a synchronous flyback converter includes a comparator, a drive circuit, and logic circuitry. The comparator is coupled to generate a compare signal in response to a comparison of a threshold to an input signal representative of a secondary winding voltage of the synchronous flyback converter. The drive circuit is coupled to generate a drive signal to control a first switch to be coupled to a primary side of the synchronous flyback converter. The drive signal is coupled to be generated by the drive circuit in response to a feedback signal representative of an output of the synchronous flyback converter. The logic circuitry is coupled to the drive circuit and coupled to the comparator. The logic circuitry is also coupled to generate a control signal to control a second switch in response to the drive signal and in response to the compare signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Power Integrations, Inc.Inventors: Sheng Liu, Alex B. Djenguerian
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Patent number: 9374012Abstract: There is provided a power supply including a direct current (DC) to DC converter supplying main power to a load, and a sub converter connected to the DC to DC converter and reducing output loss, wherein the sub converter is operable based on a hold-up time.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae Kook Kim, Chong Eun Kim, Sung Ho Kim, Dong Kyun Ryu
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Patent number: 9374013Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes a plurality of power supply circuits each including a primary side circuit, and a secondary side circuit that is magnetically coupled to the primary side circuit via a transformer. Electrical power that changes according to a phase difference between switching of the primary side circuit and switching of the secondary side circuit is input and output to and from the power supply circuit. The power conversion apparatus includes a first power supply circuit, a second power supply circuit that uses, as an input side thereof, an output side of the first power supply circuit, and a control unit that adjusts residual power obtained by subtracting input power of the second power supply circuit from output power of the first power supply circuit, by controlling a phase difference of the first power supply circuit and a phase difference of the second power supply circuit.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Jun Muto
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Patent number: 9374014Abstract: The present invention relates to a high-voltage power converter comprising a number of controllable switching valves, each switching valve comprising a plurality of series connected switching units, the high-voltage power converter further comprising a resonance circuit comprising a link inductor and a link capacitor, and a plurality of clamping circuits connected in series, each clamping circuit comprising a clamping capacitor and a clamping switching unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/SInventor: Philip Carne Kjær
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Patent number: 9374015Abstract: Lighting control techniques and corresponding drivers and ballasts are disclosed. In some embodiments, the driver or ballast receives multiple dimming inputs and has multiple dimming interfaces that produce initial dimming signals or levels. The initial dimming signals are manipulated by a controller to produce a final output dimming signal or level that is based on the dimming signals received and dims the attached light sources accordingly. The manipulations performed by the controller may include various operations, such as comparisons and calculating the product of the initial dimming signals. In some embodiments, the techniques can be applied to light-emitting diode (LED) drivers or ballasts for fluorescent and other discharge light sources and can be used in smart grid and peak power shaping applications.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Inventors: Bernhard Siessegger, Christian Breuer, Avinash Gunda
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Patent number: 9374016Abstract: An AC to DC converter is provided with: a rectifier circuit that rectifies an AC voltage generated by an AC voltage source; and a plurality of switching units that collectively receive an output voltage of the rectifier circuit through an inductor, and that are connected in series at an input side, each of the switching units having a semiconductor switching device, a diode, and a capacitor, and performing ON/OFF switching of the semiconductor switching device provided therein to step up a voltage received from the rectifier circuit, each of the switching units supplying the stepped-up voltage to the capacitor through the diode so that a resulting DC across the capacitor can be provided, as a DC output voltage of the switching unit, to a respective load to be connected to terminals of the capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2015Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Ryuji Yamada
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Patent number: 9374017Abstract: There is disclosed an AC/DC converter circuit. The circuit comprises: an input terminal for receiving an AC supply voltage; a driver circuit adapted to supply a DC drive current or voltage to an output of the circuit based on a signal provided to a control terminal of the driver circuit; and an AC coupling network connected between the input terminal and the control terminal of the driver circuit. The AC coupling network is adapted to derive a signal from an AC supply voltage received by the input terminal and to supply the derived signal to the control terminal of the driver circuit.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: NXP B.V.Inventor: Leendert Albertus Dick Van Den Broeke
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Patent number: 9374018Abstract: In at least one embodiment, the invention provides an inductorless AC/DC converter for generating a DC power supply with up to 98% efficiency. That power is suited for running a primary side controller, and for providing mains side switch drive in an isolated AC/DC converter, and also for powering unisolated LED lighting.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: CogniPower, LLCInventor: Thomas E. Lawson
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Patent number: 9374019Abstract: System and method for discharging a capacitor. An example system includes a signal detector and a discharge control component. The signal detector is configured to receive an input signal and generate a detection signal based on at least information associated with the input signal, the input signal being associated with an alternate current signal received by a capacitor including a first capacitor terminal and a second capacitor terminal. The discharge control component configured to receive at least the detection signal and generate an output signal to discharge the capacitor if the detection signal satisfies one or more conditions.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: On-Bright Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miao Li, Lieyi Fang
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Patent number: 9374020Abstract: Described herein is a stacked switched capacitor (SSC) energy buffer circuit architecture and related design and control techniques.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: David J. Perreault, Khurram K. Afridi, Minjie Chen, Steven B. Leeb, Arthur Hsu Chen Chang
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Patent number: 9374021Abstract: Output voltage feedback systems and methods are provided for controlling voltage source inverter output voltages using low bandwidth buffer circuitry and low A/D converter sample rates to sense and sample PWM output voltage waveforms to provide an estimated volt-second value for phase voltage or line-line voltage as feedback for controlling the voltage source inverter.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Rangarajan Tallam, Doyle F. Busse, Brian P. Brown, Russel J. Kerkman