Patents Issued in October 12, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170294808
    Abstract: An inductive power outlet operable to transfer power to an inductive power receiver includes a driver wired to a primary inductive coil and operable to provide a driving voltage across the primary inductive coil. The primary inductive coil is configured to form an inductive couple having a characteristic resonant frequency with at least one secondary inductive coil wired to an electric load, the secondary inductive coil being associated with the inductive power receiver. The driving voltage oscillates at a transmission frequency substantially different from the characteristic resonant frequency of the inductive couple.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: YOSSI AZANCOT, AMIR BEN-SHALOM, OOLA GREENWALD, ARIK ROFE, ALFRED LEIBOVITZ, MOTI ASHERY
  • Publication number: 20170294809
    Abstract: A system incorporating safety features, for optical power transmission to receivers, comprising an optical resonator having end reflectors and a gain medium, a driver supplying power to the gain medium, and controlling its small signal gain, a beam steering apparatus and a controller to control at least the beam steering apparatus and the driver. The controller responds to a safety risk occurring in the system, by outputting a command to change at least some of the small signal gain of the gain medium, the radiance of the optical beam, the power supplied by the driver, the scan speed or the scan direction and position of the beam steering apparatus, or to register the scan pose which defines the location of said optical-to-electrical power converter. The controller may also ensure a high overall radiance efficiency, and may warn of transmitted power not received by a targeted receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Alexander Slepoy, Lior Golan, Omer Nahmias, Ran Sagi, Ortal Alpert, Ori Refael Mor
  • Publication number: 20170294810
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system for intelligently managed multi-mode wireless transfer of energy for charging and/or powering electronics devices. Such a system may include a near field energy transfer mode and a far field energy transfer mode that when intelligently combined or used selectively at particular ranges yields an overall improved result. An energy transfer unit connected to a power source may transfer energy over-the-air within range of at least one mode to one or more electronic devices integrated with an energy receiving unit for converting transferred energy to usable power suitable for charging and/or powering of the electronic device. The system may intelligently manage the selection, combination and/or switching of modes as optimally determined by at least one integrated control circuit combined with a communications protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: POWERSPHYR INC.
    Inventors: DAVID F. MENG, WILLIAM B. WRIGHT
  • Publication number: 20170294811
    Abstract: A material comprises at least one layer of a plurality of domains, each domain being flattened in a first direction and elongated in a second direction normal to the first direction. The flattened and elongated domains define an anisotropic microstructure that facilitates a magnetic flux flow in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Martin Hosek, Jayaraman Krishnasamy
  • Publication number: 20170294812
    Abstract: A tooth groove is provided at a border portion between a tooth body portion and a protrusion. The angle between a tooth body portion lateral face which is a lateral face in the circumferential direction of the tooth body portion and a tooth body portion stop portion which is a face, of the tooth groove, continued from the tooth body portion lateral face is the right angle or an acute angle. The protrusion is rotated toward the outer side in the circumferential direction, to bring a protrusion stop portion into close contact with the tooth body portion stop portion, the protrusion stop portion being an outer-circumferential-side lateral face of the protrusion, thereby forming a shoe in a tooth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aiko NAKANO, Atsushi SAKAUE, Tatsuro HINO, Kazunori MUTO, Yoshihiro HARADA, Shinkichi SAWA, Masashi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170294813
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet motor includes a stator comprising a hollow and a plurality of coils provided around the hollow; and a rotor rotatably disposed in the hollow of the stator and comprising a plurality of permanent magnets therein. Each of the plurality of permanent magnets of the rotor comprises a central permanent magnet; a pair of side permanent magnets provided at opposite ends of the central permanent magnet to be inclined toward an outer circumferential surface of the rotor; and a pair of bathers provided between the central permanent magnet and the pair of side permanent magnets, a thickness of each of the pair of bathers is equal to or greater than a thickness of the central permanent magnet. The thickness of the central permanent magnet is greater than a thickness of each of the pair of side permanent magnets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seong-taek LIM, Sung-il KIM, Hyung-chul LEE, Jun-seok KIM, Tae-ho YOON
  • Publication number: 20170294814
    Abstract: In a permanent magnet embedded electric motor, a rotor iron core of a rotor disposed on an inner diameter side of a stator includes: a plurality of first slits that are formed on a radial direction outer side of a magnet insertion hole, and communicate with the magnet insertion hole; a plurality of second slits formed at positions opposed to and spaced apart from the first slits; inter-slit iron core portions formed between the first slits and the second slits; outer side iron core portions formed between the second slits and an outer circumferential surface of the rotor iron core; space portions communicating with rotating direction end portions of the magnet insertion hole; and thin iron core portions that are formed between the space portions and the outer circumferential surface of the rotor iron core, and extend in a rotating direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Kazuhiko BABA, Masahiro NIGO, Atsushi ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20170294815
    Abstract: The present invention provides a conductor unit, which hardly generates an insulation-related fault, for a rotating electrical machine, and a rotating electrical machine. A supply line unit (30) of the rotating electrical machine comprises a conductor (35) and a resin part (32) that encapsulates at least a part of the conductor (35), where the resin portion has an air removing portion (51) leading to the conductor (35) in a powder coating coverage area (52), in which powder coating is further implemented on the resin part (32).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co.,Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi YOKOI, Kenta NINOMIYA
  • Publication number: 20170294816
    Abstract: Provided are a motor and method for producing the motor that automatically insert interphase insulation paper. Interphase insulation paper (7) has a parting strip (8) that partitions the boundary between windings (5) that are adjacent in the circumferential direction when inserted into coil ends (6). The parting strip (8) is sandwiched between the adjacent windings (5, 5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gang REN, Hidetoshi UEMATSU
  • Publication number: 20170294817
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electrical machines. The teachings thereof may be embodied in a corona shielding system for an electrical machine. For example, a corona shielding system may include: an outer corona shield and an overhang corona shielding. The outer corona shielding and the overhang corona shielding may comprise a first corona shielding material having a nonlinear field strength-dependent electrical resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Klaussner, Jiri Lang, Steffen Lang, Alexander Litinsky, Guido Schmidt, Christian Schulz-Drost, Klaus Schaefer, Christian Staubach
  • Publication number: 20170294818
    Abstract: A brushless motor may be applied to an aircraft or a drone and have a stable structure with long life. The efficiency of the brushless motor can reach 94-98% to solve the problems of power consumption during flight and to save energy. Also, the brushless motor has a light-weight body which allows the aircraft to carry more freight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Imakawa Technology Co,.LTD.
    Inventor: Kai-Lun Lin
  • Publication number: 20170294819
    Abstract: A brushless motor includes a stator assembly including a generally-cylindrical stator body having a center bore, teeth extending from the stator body towards the center bore and defining slots in between, and windings wound around the teeth; and a rotor assembly rotatably received within the center bore and includes a rotor shaft and a generally-cylindrical rotor body. The motor further includes at least one rotor bearing mounted on the rotor shaft, and at least one bearing support member supporting the rotor bearing. The bearing support member includes a radial body forming a bearing pocket for receiving the rotor bearing therein, and axial post inserts received within the slots of the stator assembly between adjacent sets of windings and engaging an inner surface of the stator body to support the rotor bearing with respect to the stator assembly along a center axis of the center bore of the stator assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Colin M. Crosby, Merritt J. Tennison, Ryan F. Schroeder, Jarrett A. Dunston, David J. Smith, Barak N. Gohn, Andrew M. Palich, Justin H. Ayers
  • Publication number: 20170294820
    Abstract: Provided is a rotating electrical machine including a housing in which a flow passage of cooling liquid can be easily formed and airtightness and productivity are high. A rotating electrical machine is configured to include a housing which is provided with a part of a flow passage of cooling liquid, a stator which is disposed on an inner circumferential side of the housing and includes a stator winding, and a rotor which is rotatably supported to an inner circumferential side of the stator with a gap between the stator and the rotor and the flow passage of the cooling liquid includes an annular groove having an open surface on at least one side of an axial direction of the housing and a plate provided to cover the open surface. Preferably, the housing and the plate are configured to be joined by welding or an adhesive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio ISHIKAWA, Masahiko HONMA
  • Publication number: 20170294821
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine system integrally includes a rotating electrical machine housed in a first chamber of a housing and a semiconductor module housed in a second chamber of the housing and electrically coupled to the rotating electrical machine. The rotating electrical machine includes a stator secured to an inner circumference surface of the first chamber and a rotor rotatably disposed with respect to the stator. The rotating electrical machine system further includes a cooler disposed between a bottom portion of the second chamber and the semiconductor module to cool the semiconductor module and the stator by coolant that passes through an inside of the cooler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi SHIMIZU, Tomohiro UMINO, Yasuyuki KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20170294822
    Abstract: A method for energy conversion from pressure energy into electrical energy uses an expansion turbine. In the method, a pressurized, gaseous, first medium is heated before being fed into the expansion turbine. The expansion turbine drives a generator and a compressor. At least one gaseous second medium is compressed by the compressor in a heating arrangement. Heat generated by the compression and preferably also via utilization of ambient heat according to a heat exchanger principle is used for heating the gaseous first medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Rasmus Rubycz, Eduard Walter
  • Publication number: 20170294823
    Abstract: In the present rectifying apparatus, a circuit board is disposed between a first rectifying element holding portion and a second rectifying element holding portion, and is configured such that only a housing linking portion, a stator winding connecting portion, and a voltage regulator connecting portion protrude from the first rectifying element holding portion and the second rectifying element holding portion when viewed from an axial direction, a plurality of first radially inner fins are formed on a radially inner side of the first rectifying element holding portion, and a plurality of second radially outer fins are formed on a radially outer side of the second rectifying element holding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masao AKIYOSHI, Yuzuru KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170294824
    Abstract: An electric motor with a motor shaft, a motor pinion and a sensor element for an optical rotary encoder which has at least one recess for the transmission of a light beam from the optical rotary encoder. The motor shaft, the motor pinion and the sensing element being integrally formed with one another and being coupled with the motor shaft in a rotationally fixed manner. Further, the sensor element has a drum-shaped design and is aligned coaxially with the motor pinion. The recess is formed in the sensor element in such a way that the light beam of the rotary encoder can pass radially relative to a rotational axis of the sensor element. The invention also relates to a medical device with such an electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: BÜHLER MOTOR GMBH
    Inventor: Sabrina Brod
  • Publication number: 20170294825
    Abstract: An electric motor assembly includes an electric motor, a casing configured to house the motor, and an electrical enclosure coupled to the motor casing. The electrical enclosure houses a control board including a microcontroller and a memory device therein. The microcontroller is configured to control the electric motor based at least in part on motor configuration data stored in the memory device. The assembly also includes a near field communications (NFC) antenna positioned adjacent to an opening defined in the motor casing or the electronics enclosure, and is communicatively coupled to the memory device. The NFC antenna is configured to: receive a radio signal transmitted by an external programming device, the radio signal including updated motor configuration data; convert the radio signal to an electrical signal that includes the updated motor configuration data; and transmit the electrical signal to the memory device to store the updated motor configuration data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: SHAILESH PRABHAKAR WAIKAR, Kamron Mark Wright, Ahmad Mohammad Ghannam, Ryan Keith Stephens, Steven Albert Nardin, Xiaohui Ji, Peter Bruff Lytle
  • Publication number: 20170294826
    Abstract: Self-centering electromagnetic transducers, such as linear motors and generators, are disclosed. In one embodiment, an electromagnetic transducer includes an outer yoke made of a ferromagnetic material, and a coil assembly including a plurality of loops of electrically conductive wire, wherein the coil assembly is substantially surrounded by the outer yoke. The electromagnetic transducer further includes a magnet, and an inner yoke made of ferromagnetic material. The magnet is disposed within the outer yoke such that the coil assembly surrounds the magnet. The inner yoke is disposed within the magnet, and the magnet is free to translate. The electromagnetic transducer further includes at least one high-reluctance zone positioned within the outer yoke and/or the inner yoke. In some embodiments, the electromagnetic transducer includes one or more actuators that vary a width of one or more high-reluctance zones to change a spring rate of the electromagnetic transducer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Andreas Fiedler
  • Publication number: 20170294827
    Abstract: An X-Y movable stage with rotation is described. A fixed base comprises a magnetic bed with a checkerboard pattern of alternating north and south poles on a grid. A movable puck moves and rotates on the base. The puck comprises three or more nodes where each node may be energized for a north, south, or off magnetic field, with varying field strength. The nodes are arranged on an X-Y motion grid on the puck that are rotated 45° from the magnetic base grid. A first set of node locations on the puck may be each centered between a pair of opposite poles on the magnetic base. One arrangement of nodes is at the corners of a rectangle aligned with the motion grid. An optional second set of one node locations on the puck may be each centered between a pair of opposite poles on the magnetic base, when the first set of nodes is aligned over poles. Methods of mapping node locations, controllers, and applications are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Kim Rubin
  • Publication number: 20170294828
    Abstract: A large-size axial eddy current damper manufactured by use of screw drive comprises a drive assembly and an eddy current damping generator; the drive assembly comprises a screw drive pair, and a stator and a rotor respectively made of magnetic conductive materials; the screw drive pair comprises a screw rod and a nut sleeved on the screw rod; the screw rod sequentially penetrates through central holes of upper and lower flanges of the stator; the nut is within the stator; the rotor comprises an outer rotor and an inner rotor having the bottom provided with a lower connecting flange; one or more eddy current damping generators are arranged between the stator and the outer rotor. Problems of having difficulty in manufacturing axial dampers with a large damping coefficient and simulating anti-vibration dampers with a speed index of less than 1, by use of eddy current damping, can be solved simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Zhengqing Chen
  • Publication number: 20170294829
    Abstract: A front stage circuit of a transformer includes a switch series unit, capacitors, and a ground electrical path. The switch series unit, connected in parallel to a power supply, includes odd-numbered/even-numbered switches configured to be alternately turned ON. Assuming that mutual connection points of the switches and points at both ends of the switch series unit are m nodes in total, and one of the points at the both ends is a ground node, the capacitors are provided on at least one of a first electrical path that combines odd nodes and leads them to a first output port, and a second electrical path that combines even nodes and leads them to a second output port, and the capacitors are present to correspond to (m?1) nodes excluding the ground node. The ground electrical path connects the ground node directly to the first output port without an interposed capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hideaki Nakahata, Satoshi Hatsukawa, Kenichi Hirotsu, Takashi Ohira, Kyohei Yamada, Daiya Egashira
  • Publication number: 20170294830
    Abstract: A configurable impedance circuit is provided, including a filter for filtering a received DC voltage and a controller. The filter includes a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a selectable switch coupled in series with the second capacitor and coupled to receive a control signal. The selectable switch and the second capacitor are selectively coupled in parallel with the first capacitor. The controller is connected to sense a differential voltage across the second capacitor and configured to generate the control signal to open or close the selectable switch based on the differential voltage across the second capacitor, so as to maintain a voltage range across the second capacitor. According to disclosure of the present invention, the total physical size of the capacitors is reduced and the size of the power supply is reduced accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Liming YE, Heping DAI, Dianbo FU
  • Publication number: 20170294831
    Abstract: A configurable impedance circuit includes a controller that senses a rectified voltage and generates a first and second control signals based on a comparison of the rectified voltage to at least one threshold voltage. The configurable impedance circuit also includes a filter for filtering the rectified voltage that couples a plurality of capacitors in series to the rectified voltage in a first configuration based on the first control signal and couples the plurality of capacitors in parallel to the rectified voltage in a second configuration based on the second control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Heping DAI, Liming YE, Dianbo FU
  • Publication number: 20170294832
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device that can enhance the safety when feeding to a USB device. Provided is a semiconductor device including: a first power source circuit that generates an output voltage supplied to a USB device coupled to a USB connector; an abnormality detection circuit that determines the state of a supply route of the output voltage generated by the first power source circuit; and a control circuit that controls supply of the output voltage from the first power source circuit to the USB device on the basis of a determination result of the abnormality detection circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Dan AOKI
  • Publication number: 20170294833
    Abstract: A power factor correction (PFC) power converter, particularly of a multiphase totem-pole or other topology presenting a switching bridge that can potentially provide bi-directional power transfer control, reduces a nominal switching frequency and achieves zero voltage switching over an increased portion of a half line cycle by providing positive or inverse coupling of inductors in an inductor structure that can be formed of a multi-layer printed circuit board such that at least three different inductances are presented during each half line cycle period; allowing increased switching frequency and simplifying EMI filtering arrangements. Parasitic capacitances can be balanced with additional coupled windings to reduce differential mode and common mode noise. The PFC power converter is particularly applicable to provide bi-directional power control from an on-board battery charger in an electrically powered vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Yuchen Yang, Mingkai Mu, Fred C. Lee, Qiang Li
  • Publication number: 20170294834
    Abstract: A system having ring generation device being configured for phase inverted synchronous operation with a primary converter device. The primary converter device is operable to supply power to at least one device. The primary converter device produces a first electromagnetic interference during operation. The ring generation device produces a second electromagnetic interference that cancels the first electromagnetic interference. The primary converter device and the ring generator device are synchronized and operate in an inverse phase with each other to generally cancel the electro-magnetic interference signal created by the primary converter device. A ring generation charging switch and a ring generation discharging switch generally turns on and off alternately which matches a charging and discharging of a primary switching node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Takashi Kanamori
  • Publication number: 20170294835
    Abstract: The invention is directed towards a power source interface module for electronic circuits supplied by power from a power source as well as a power supply arrangement for electronic circuits comprising such a power source interface module. The module comprises a first circuit board carrying components, the first circuit board comprising a number of stacked circuit board layers as well as at least two openings, at least a part of a filter comprising at least one pair of magnetically coupled inductive coils, a core with two core legs, each core leg stretching through a corresponding opening in the circuit board, wherein each coil is wound around a corresponding core leg, the turns of the coils stretch through the circuit board layers, and each layer between an upper outer layer and a lower outer layer comprises at least a part of one turn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mattias ANDERSSON, Martin ETSARE, Per FERM, Roger HOFFSTRÖM, Igor PEREZ-URIA
  • Publication number: 20170294836
    Abstract: One example discloses a switching capacitive power converter, SCPC, including: an energy storage element; a voltage reference controller, and configured to output an adjusted reference voltage based on a received fixed reference voltage; and a charge pumping circuit configured to operate the SCPC at a charge pumping frequency and configured to charge the energy storage element at the charge pumping frequency if an absolute value of the power converter's output voltage is below an absolute value of the adjusted reference voltage; wherein if the charge pumping frequency is within a predetermined frequency exclusion range, the voltage reference controller is configured to set the adjusted reference voltage to a value such that the charge pumping frequency is no longer within the predetermined frequency exclusion range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Melaine Philip
  • Publication number: 20170294837
    Abstract: Voltage converter and control method thereof. In some embodiments, a voltage converter can include a voltage conversion circuit configured to convert an input voltage to an output voltage based on a drive signal, and a feedback circuit configured to generate an error signal based on the output voltage and a reference voltage. The voltage converter can further include a feedforward circuit configured to generate a feedforward signal based on the input voltage. The voltage converter can further include a drive control circuit configured to generate the drive signal based on the feedforward signal and the error signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Hai-Bo LI
  • Publication number: 20170294838
    Abstract: In a DC-DC voltage conversion device, overheat of a diode element connected in anti-parallel with a semiconductor switching element is a problem, and in order to resolve this, a temperature of a semiconductor switching element of a main conversion circuit is detected, a temperature of a diode element connected in parallel with the semiconductor switching element is calculated using a correction calculation of the detected semiconductor switching element temperature value in accordance with a step-up ratio of the DC-DC voltage conversion device, and diode element overheat protection is carried out in accordance with the calculated temperature value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru KOBAYASHI, Matahiko IKEDA, Nobuhiro KIHARA, Kazuhiko OTSUKA, Junichi ABE
  • Publication number: 20170294839
    Abstract: A switch mode power supply, which functions in a continuous current mode and a discontinuous mode employing a zero crossing control circuit for determining a polarity of an inductor current and from the polarity of the inductor current, controlling an operational state of a switching section of the switch mode power supply such that the inductor current becomes approximately zero amperes at the end of each demagnetization phase of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Guillaume de Cremoux, Nicolas Borfigat
  • Publication number: 20170294840
    Abstract: The present invention relates to resonant power converters and inverters comprising a self-oscillating feedback loop coupled from a switch output to a control input of a switching network comprising one or more semiconductor switches. The self-oscillating feedback loop sets a switching frequency of the power converter and comprises a first intrinsic switch capacitance coupled between a switch output and a control input of the switching network and a first inductor. The first inductor is coupled in-between a first bias voltage source and the control input of the switching network and has a substantially fixed inductance. The first bias voltage source is configured to generate an adjustable bias voltage applied to the first inductor. The output voltage of the power converter is controlled in a flexible and rapid manner by controlling the adjustable bias voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Mickey P. Madsen, Jeppe Amsdorf Pedersen
  • Publication number: 20170294841
    Abstract: A switching power converter controller is provided that includes a VCC charging switch transistor coupled between a drain of a power switch transistor and a storage capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Xiaolin Gao
  • Publication number: 20170294842
    Abstract: A pulse generator is disclosed that includes at least the following stages a driver stage, a transformer stage, a rectifier stage, and an output stage. The driver stage may include at least one solid state switch such as, for example, of one or more IGBTs and/or one or more MOSFETs. The driver stage may also have a stray inductance less than 1,000 nH. The transformer stage may be coupled with the driver stage and/or with a balance stage and may include one or more transformers. The rectifier stage may be coupled with the transformer stage and may have a stray inductance less than 1,000 nH. The output stage may be coupled with the rectifier stage. The output stage may output a signal pulse with a voltage greater than 2 kilovolts and a frequency greater than 5 kHz. In some embodiments, the output stage may be galvanically isolated from a reference potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Kenneth E. Miller, Timothy Ziemba, IIia Slobodov, John G. Carscadden, James Prager
  • Publication number: 20170294843
    Abstract: A power converter includes first to fourth terminals, a transformer including primary and secondary windings, an inverter connected between the first and second terminals and the primary winding, a converter connected between fifth and sixth terminals, and a controller. The converter includes first to eighth switch circuits each including a diode and a switch connected in parallel. When a voltage between the fifth and sixth terminals has first polarity, the controller controls the first switch circuit to be in on-state during a first on-period and controls the fifth switch circuit to be in on-state during a second on-period completely including the first on-period. When the voltage between the fifth and sixth terminals has second polarity, the controller controls the second switch circuit to be in on-state during a third on-period and controls the sixth switch circuit to be in on-state during a fourth on-period completely including the third on-period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: TAKAAKI NORISADA, FUMITO KUSAMA, GO YAMADA, KEIJI AKAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20170294844
    Abstract: A switching power supply apparatus includes a switching circuit, a resonance circuit, a rectifying circuit, and a control circuit. The switching circuit includes switching elements connected in series between input terminals of a source. The resonance circuit includes an excitation inductor of a primary winding of a transformer, a resonance inductor connected in series with the excitation inductor, and a variable resonance capacitor which is connected in series with the excitation inductor and whose electrostatic capacity changes according to a control voltage. The control circuit generates, on the basis of a feedback voltage, switching signals in which frequency diffusion is given to a switching frequency and the control voltage and outputs the switching signals and the control voltage to simultaneously change the switching frequency and the electrostatic capacity of the variable resonance capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi NISHIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20170294845
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes first and second terminals connected to a DC power source, third and fourth terminals connected to a commercial power system or a load, a transformer including a primary winding having seventh and eighth terminals and a secondary winding having fifth and sixth terminals, an inverter circuit connected between the first and second terminals and the seventh and eighth terminals, a converter circuit connected between the fifth and sixth terminals and the third and fourth terminals, a diode bridge including first and second AC input terminals connected to the fifth and sixth terminals, respectively, and first and second DC output terminals, a first capacitor connected between the first and second DC output terminals, and a first resistor connected in parallel with the first capacitor between the first and second DC output terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: FUMITO KUSAMA, TAKAAKI NORISADA, GO YAMADA, KEIJI AKAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20170294846
    Abstract: A power system can include a first tap changer for a first regulated transformer, where the first tap changer has a plurality of first positions. The power system can also include a second tap changer for a second regulated transformer, where the second tap changer has a plurality of second positions. The power system can further include at least one first instrument transformer coupled to the first regulated transformer. The power system can also include at least one second instrument transformer coupled to the second regulated transformer. The power system can further include a controller coupled to the at least one first instrument transformer and the at least one second instrument transformer, where the controller adjusts the first tap changer to a first adjusted position among the first positions based on the first measurements of the first regulated transformer and the second measurements of the second regulated transformer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: COOPER TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY
    Inventors: DANIEL JOSEPH DALEY, DANIEL MICHAEL SAUER, FRED JOSEPH RAPANT
  • Publication number: 20170294847
    Abstract: A pre-charge control method for a hybrid multilevel power converter comprises steps of: (a) controlling access of the current-limiting resistor unit, limiting current from the AC power via the current-limiting resistor unit, and outputting the current; (b) controlling the second capacitor unit to bypass, and charging the first capacitor unit; (c) controlling the access of the second capacitor unit when the first capacitor unit is charged to a third preset voltage, and charging the first and second capacitor units at the same time; (d) controlling the first capacitor unit to bypass when the second capacitor unit is charged to a fourth preset voltage, or the first capacitor unit is charged to a first preset voltage, and charging the second capacitor unit; and (e) controlling the access of the first capacitor units and the current-limiting resistor unit to bypass when the second capacitor unit is charged to a second preset voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Wei Xie, Jianfei Zheng, Dingkun Shen, Lan Wei, Jianping Ying, Zhiming Hu, Wei Xu, Wei Tian
  • Publication number: 20170294848
    Abstract: A device for providing high DC voltage using a solid state normally open switch. The solid state switch is controlled to gradually rise the voltage of the DC output by applying ON/OFF modulation scheme. The modulation scheme opens the switch initially for a very short time duration around the zero crossing of the input AC voltage and gradually the duration of the ON state extends until the switch remains constantly open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Giora LEVIN, Gregory BUNIN
  • Publication number: 20170294849
    Abstract: A multiphase DC power supply with high switching frequency of 1 MHz comprising three parallel connected three phase DC power supply. Each of the d parallel connected three phase DC power supply comprises a boost power factor corrector to convert an AC power source to a rectified and filtered DC voltage, an isolation transformer connected to the boost power factor corrector to generate a full wave rectified DC voltage having stable voltage level, a duck switching circuit consisting a first, a second and a third semiconductor switches to regulate the voltage level of the output of said isolation transformer and a phase controller to manage an interleaved phase of the output of said three semiconductor switches. The multiphase DC power supply uses interleaved power factor correction technology to successfully provide a DC power supply with high switching frequency, low ripple noise and not subject to EMI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Mu-Chun LIN
  • Publication number: 20170294850
    Abstract: A multilevel converter comprising a first switching branch connected between a positive DC-link terminal and an AC output terminal and comprising series-connected first and second switching elements, a second switching branch connected between the AC output terminal and a negative DC-link terminal and comprising series-connected third and fourth switching elements, a third switching branch connected between a DC-link neutral point and a connection point of the first and the second switching elements, a fourth switching branch connected between the DC-link neutral point and a connection point of the third and the fourth switching elements, the fourth switching branch being completely independent from the third switching branch, and a flying capacitor connected between the connection point of the first and the second switching elements and the connection point of the third and the fourth switching elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Yong XU, Fan ZHANG, Stefan SCHROEDER
  • Publication number: 20170294851
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for controlling an inverter system including a plurality of inverters connected in parallel. The method includes: comparing a target power amount with an amount of power to be supplied by the predetermined number of inverters; determining the number of inverters to be driven, based on a result of the comparison; and supplying the final output power to an AC power system by driving inverters by the determined number of inverters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Ho-Hyun KANG
  • Publication number: 20170294852
    Abstract: A grid-tied inverter for supplying current to a power supply system includes an output bridge arrangement that is actuated via a pulse width modulator, wherein switching times of the output bridge arrangement are determined by using a periodic auxiliary signal, wherein the frequency of the periodic auxiliary signal varies according to a prescribed periodic wobble signal. The inverter further includes a synchronization unit configured to provide phase synchronization of the auxiliary signal to the power supply system, wherein the synchronization unit is configured to adjust a prescribed phase offset of the periodic auxiliary signal in relation to a phase of the power supply system, and a further synchronization unit configured to provide phase synchronization of the periodic wobble signal to the power supply system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Pablo Ignacio Correa Vasques, Florian Bethke
  • Publication number: 20170294853
    Abstract: A static synchronous compensator includes at least one converter pole for producing a first phase of an AC voltage waveform having a fundamental cycle. The first phase of the AC voltage waveform includes alternating converter pole charging and discharging regions in each fundamental cycle. The at least one converter pole includes a plurality of cascaded H-bridge cells, each having a DC voltage source and a plurality of switches. The switches are capable of being switched to produce a plurality of switching states. There is a controller configured to control the switching states of the plurality of switches of each of the cascaded H-bridge cells based on the voltages of DC voltage sources of the H-bridge cells and on whether the AC waveform is in the converter pole charging region or the converter pole discharging region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Patrick S. Flannery
  • Publication number: 20170294854
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a first determination section determining whether a power-supply voltage has decreased below a first threshold value, an interruption section interrupting a current flow to an inverter if the voltage has decreased below the first threshold value, a second determination section that determining whether the power-supply voltage has increased above a second threshold value, an interruption releasing section releasing the interruption based on the fact that the voltage has increased above the second threshold value, a count section counting the number of interruptions, a limiting section determining whether the decrease in the power-supply voltage is caused by a first factor of an electric rotating machine or a second factor, and limits the counting if the decrease in the power-supply voltage is caused by the second factor, and a third determination section determining whether the interruption is allowed to be released based on the number of interruptions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo MORITA, Shinsuke KAWAZU
  • Publication number: 20170294855
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an inverter, and more specifically to an inverter that can be restarted stably by determining whether to restart it when power is supplied after a failure has occurred in the inverter due to a fault in the main supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Seung-Cheol CHOI, Anno YOO
  • Publication number: 20170294856
    Abstract: A stepping motor control device includes a motor drive portion, a rotor position detection portion, and a control portion. The motor drive portion is configured to sequentially switch an excitation pattern of excitation phases of a stepping motor each time a drive pulse signal is supplied thereto. The rotor position detection portion is configured to be capable of detecting a rotor position in a state where a rotor of the stepping motor has stopped. The control portion is configured to supply the drive pulse signal having a number of pulses determined in accordance with the rotor position detected by the rotor position detection portion, to the motor drive portion in a state where a current supplied to the excitation phases has been controlled to a predetermined current value at which the rotor does not rotate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Naohiro Anan
  • Publication number: 20170294857
    Abstract: A control device for rotating electric machine, which controls a rotating electric machine as a charging electric generator, using an inverter circuit, the control device including: an energization amount generating unit for generating a first electric generation mode in which an energization amount for a field winding and an energization amount for an armature winding of the rotating electric machine are controlled and the inverter circuit is driven to perform electric generation, and a second electric generation mode in which an energization amount for the field winding is controlled to perform electric generation; and an energization signal generating unit for, on the basis of variation-related information relevant to variation in one of electric generation torque and electric generation current of the rotating electric machine, performing switching between the first electric generation mode and the second electric generation mode, and generating energization signals for the field winding and the armature
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro SEKI, Masahiro IEZAWA, Ryo NAKAMURA, Yuya HISANO