Patents Issued in February 20, 2024
  • Patent number: 11909291
    Abstract: A rotary reciprocating drive actuator reciprocally and rotationally driving the movable body about the shaft part in relation to the fixed body by the electromagnetic mutual effect of the coil and the movable magnet, wherein the movable magnet is magnetized in the radial direction of the shaft part, the two magnetic poles are disposed facing each other across an air gap in the radial direction of the movable magnet and the shaft part, and the fixed body has a rotation-angle-holding part disposed facing the movable magnet across the air gap, the rotation-angle-holding part holding the rotation angle position of the movable magnet by the magnetic attraction force generated with the movable magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Yasutaka Kitamura, Masaharu Kagami, Shigenori Inamoto
  • Patent number: 11909292
    Abstract: A moving coil brushless motor including an actuator having a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a cylindrical array of permanent magnets. The rotor includes a coil assembly having a plurality of coils interposed between a stator back plate and the permanent magnet array. The coil assembly rotates relative to the array of permanent magnets. A center shaft is disposed to rotate about a longitudinal axis. A cylindrical transformer is disposed within an interior space circumscribed by the stator back plate and includes a primary side and a secondary side. The primary side includes a primary coil and the secondary side includes a secondary coil magnetically coupled to the primary coil. Primary electronics are in communication with secondary electronics attached to the center shaft. The secondary electronics are configured to receive power from the secondary coil and to provide current to the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Systems, Machines, Automation Components Corporation
    Inventors: Edward A. Neff, Koen Bastiaens, Dave C. J. Krop, Elena A. Lomonova, Toan Minh Vu, Reyhan Zanis
  • Patent number: 11909293
    Abstract: A rotor sleeve (46) for a rotor (29) of an electric machine (28). The sleeve comprises a plurality of layers (66a, 66b) of carbon fibre reinforced polymer, each layer (66a, 66b) comprising fibres (68) oriented substantially 90° to a rotational axis (X) and at least one layer (72a) of fibres (74) having a lower modulus of elasticity provided between layers (66a, 66b) of carbon fibre reinforced polymer. The lower modulus of elasticity fibres (74) are oriented between 50° and 75° relative to the rotational axis (X).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE ELECTRICAL NORWAY AS
    Inventor: Jørg Høyland
  • Patent number: 11909294
    Abstract: A pressure compensating assembly for a drive mechanism of a vehicle, wherein the drive mechanism includes as drive components an electrical machine a power electronics unit, and a transmission, wherein each drive component is disposed in a respective housing which encloses an air space, wherein at least two air spaces of adjacent housings are interconnected in an air-permeable manner, wherein the pressure compensating assembly includes a pressure compensating member common to all drive components, which member connects the air spaces of all drive components of the drive mechanism to an environment and is disposed above a wading line of the vehicle when the pressure compensating assembly is installed in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Manfred Hensel, Daniel Wurm
  • Patent number: 11909296
    Abstract: A magnetic bearing is provided. The magnetic according to the present disclosure includes: a stator core disposed to surround a central axis; a plurality of bobbins coupled to the stator core; a coil wound around the bobbin; and a positioning member coupled to the plurality of bobbins and determining positions of the plurality of bobbins, and the positioning member has a circular shape centered on a central point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sena Jeong, Kiwook Lee, Seongki Baek
  • Patent number: 11909297
    Abstract: A force-balancing magnetic bearing with an adjustable bias magnetic field for a stator permanent magnet motor is provided. The force-balancing magnetic bearing includes four permanent magnetic poles and four electromagnetic poles, wherein a magnetic field energy of the four permanent magnetic poles is sourced from a stator permanent magnet of the stator permanent magnet motor, each permanent magnetic pole is formed by a left permanent-magnet magnetic bridge, a right permanent-magnet magnetic bridge, a magnetic adjusting section, an electromagnetic pole stator, an electromagnetic pole and permanent magnetic pole isolation plate, a permanent-magnet two-side magnetic pole connection section, a left permanent-magnet magnetic pole and a right permanent-magnet magnetic pole, a magnetic flux of each permanent magnetic pole is adjusted by the magnetic adjusting section, and the four electromagnetic poles are adjusted by currents introduced into electromagnetic pole winding coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wei Hua, Zhiheng Zhang, Qifan Xu
  • Patent number: 11909298
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a housing of an electric machine (1), comprising a hollow cylindrical housing element (5), in particular housing jacket, and at least one housing cover (6), which is attached to the end of the housing element (5), a cooling channel (8) being formed in the housing, the housing element (5) having at least two cooling channel sections (8.1) of the cooling channel (8), which each extend from a channel end opening (13) in an end face (11) of the housing element (5) in an axial direction relative to a housing axis (100) into the housing element (5). Two adjacent cooling channel sections (8.1) are flow-connected to each other via a deflection section (8.2) formed in the housing cover (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thieu Huy Vuong, Camilo Andres Carrillo Estupinan, Stephan Geise
  • Patent number: 11909299
    Abstract: A power converting apparatus includes a first arm including a switching element and a switching element connected in series, a second arm connected in parallel with the first arm and including a switching element and a switching element connected in series, a reactor having one end connected to the switching element and the switching element and the other end connected to a single-phase alternating-current power supply, and a smoothing capacitor connected in parallel with the first arm and the second arm. The power converting apparatus includes a driving circuit driving the switching element, a bootstrap circuit, and a diode adjusting a power supply voltage, wherein a first voltage at which a forward current starts to flow to the diode is lower than a second voltage at which a forward current starts to flow in a body diode formed in the second switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yamakawa, Koichi Arisawa
  • Patent number: 11909300
    Abstract: A switch-mode power supply (SMPS), an SMPS system and a power supply method for an SMPS system are disclosed. The SMPS controller includes an output-voltage power supply unit, a built-in energy storage unit and a logic control unit. The output-voltage power supply unit is configured to charge the built-in energy storage unit using an output voltage from the SMPS system so that the built-in energy storage unit can provide an operating voltage for the logic control unit. The use of a stand-off energy storage capacitor can be dispensed with, and the use of the output voltage as a power supply is enabled. As a result, significant reductions in overall and standby power dissipation are achieved. In addition, the SMPS controller may further include a high-voltage power supply unit, which provides a hybrid power supply solution, together with the output-voltage power supply unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI BRIGHT POWER SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rulong Jiang, Liqiang Hu, Shungen Sun, Zhen Zhu, Xiaoru Gao, Yihui Chen, Hong Zhang, Pengfei Lu
  • Patent number: 11909301
    Abstract: The present disclose relates to an intermittent power saving mode control circuit and method thereof, comprising: a mode indication signal generating circuit configured to generate a mode indication signal according to an output voltage compensation signal, a first reference voltage, and a second reference voltage, the mode indication signal is configured to indicate that a switching power supply is working in a work mode or a sleep mode; wherein the second reference voltage is adjusted according to a frequency of the mode indication signal, so that the frequency of the mode indication signal is maintained within a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SILERGY SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY (HANGZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhan Chen, Qiukai Huang
  • Patent number: 11909302
    Abstract: A method for operating a multi-level bridge power converter of an electrical power system connected to a power grid includes providing a plurality of switching devices of the power converter in an active neutral point clamped topology. The method also includes operating the plurality of switching devices in a plurality of operating states such that current simultaneously flows through at least two parallel recovery paths of the plurality of switching devices during operation of the power converter to minimize a commutation path of the current when at least one diode of the plurality of switching devices recovers, thereby reducing parasitic inductance affecting the recovering antiparallel diode or the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Fernando Arturo Ramirez Sanchez, Robert Gregory Wagoner, Nathaniel Robert Michener
  • Patent number: 11909303
    Abstract: A bypass device of an HVDC sub module according to the present invention comprises: a sub module for generating a voltage in an HVDC system; a bypass switch driving unit for driving a bypass switch located at an input terminal of the sub module; a sub module controller for monitoring a state of the sub module to transmit the monitored state to a system controller, and controlling the sub module and the bypass switch driving unit according to a command of the system controller; and a voltage monitoring unit for controlling the bypass switch driving unit by monitoring a voltage of a capacitor located in the sub module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HYOSUNG HEAVY INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jung Ki Hong, Dong Woo Seo
  • Patent number: 11909304
    Abstract: In a method for controlling a plurality of semiconductors that form a power converter, a protocol for controlling the plurality of semiconductors is transmitted via a signal line between a control unit and the semiconductors. Additionally transmitted via the signal line is a sign-of-life signal, wherein the semiconductors are switched off, when the sign-of-life signal is absent, and the semiconductors of the power converter are switched using optimized pulse patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Meritor Electric Vehicles Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Ditterich, Herbert Eder
  • Patent number: 11909305
    Abstract: An object is to obtain a power conversion device that can stabilize output voltage to a DC load. A power conversion device includes an AC/DC conversion unit having a power conversion circuit composed of a plurality of first semiconductor switching elements connected in a full-bridge form, and a full-bridge chopper circuit unit having a full-bridge chopper circuit composed of a plurality of second semiconductor switching elements connected in a full-bridge form, and connected to a positive terminal and a negative terminal. A neutral point of an AC filter capacitor unit and a neutral point of a DC filter capacitor unit are connected via a neutral point line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoji Tsuruta, Tsuguhiro Takuno, Takushi Jimichi, Kikuo Izumi
  • Patent number: 11909306
    Abstract: A power converter circuit included in a computer system regulates a power supply voltage used by other circuits in the computer system. During operation, the power converter circuit monitors the load current, and, in response to a transient in the load current, switches regulation modes to adapt to the new load conditions. Upon a detection of the end of the transient in the load current, the power converter returns to its original regulation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yue Wen, Hubert Attah, Wenxun Huang, Hao Zhou
  • Patent number: 11909307
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes a power converter including a plurality of arms and a control device to control voltages of a plurality of sub modules by PWM control using a carrier signal for each sub module. The sub module includes a plurality of switching elements, a power storage element, a pair of output terminals, and a bypass switch. When the control device detects failure of a sub module in an arm, it performs stop processing for stopping a switching operation of the plurality of switching elements included in at least one sub module of the plurality of sub modules in the arm and has the sub module failure of which was detected bypassed. After the control device performs the stop processing, it equalizes intervals among phases of carrier signals of a plurality of normal sub modules in the arm caused by failure of the sub module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyori Tahata, Shuhei Fujiwara, Takuya Kajiyama, Toshiyuki Fujii
  • Patent number: 11909308
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a power conversion circuit. The power conversion circuit includes at least one first power conversion unit connected in series to a first phase line, at least one second power conversion unit connected in series to a second phase line, at least one third power conversion unit connected in series to a third phase line, a plurality of first start circuits connected in series to the first phase line, and a plurality of second start circuits connected in series to the second phase line. Each first start circuit includes a first relay and a first resistor that are connected in parallel, and first relays in all the first start circuits are sequentially closed after the power conversion circuit is powered on, to start the power conversion circuit. Each second start circuit includes a second relay and a second resistor that are connected in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI DIGITAL POWER TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhuyong Huang, Xiaofei Zhang, Peng Shuai, Peiguo Liu
  • Patent number: 11909309
    Abstract: Stable switching is disclosed for a power factor correction boost converter using an input voltage and an output voltage. In one example, a boost converter control system includes a gate driver coupled to a switch of a boost converter to generate a drive signal to control switching of the switch, wherein a period of the drive signal is adjusted using a current adjustment signal. A current control loop is coupled to the gate driver to receive a sensed input current from the boost converter and a desired input current and to generate the current adjustment signal to the gate driver. A current limiter is coupled to the gate driver and the current control loop to determine a duty cycle of the switch, to determine a maximum input current in response to the duty cycle, and to restrict the desired input current to below the maximum input current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Remco Twelkemeijer, Wilhelmus Hinderikus Maria Langeslag
  • Patent number: 11909310
    Abstract: A switching power supply device includes a power conversion circuit that is provided at a multilayer printed board and includes a plurality of switching circuits and a controller controlling the switching circuits, windings configuring an inductor at the multilayer printed board, and a magnetic sheet on one or both of upper and lower faces of the multilayer printed board. First ends of the windings are connected to the switching circuits, and second ends of the windings are connected to a common output. The controller controls the plurality of switching circuits to periodically vary a position and a time at which magnetic flux generated by current flowing to the windings reaches the maximum magnetic flux density. Thus, the switching power supply device is thin, achieves dispersion of heat generation, handles variations in the magnitude of electric power by varying the area of the board, and effectively reduces unwanted radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Hosotani
  • Patent number: 11909311
    Abstract: An N-phase power converter has N phases with outputs connected in parallel and outputs connected in parallel. The converter comprises: N switch units, wherein each phase of the N-phase power converter comprises one of the N switch units; and an integrated inductor unit, comprising M inductor subunits, wherein M is a natural number greater than or equal to 2, each inductor subunit comprises i inductors, i is a natural number greater than or equal to 2, N>M×i or N=M×i, M×i of the inductors in the integrated inductor unit are respectively coupled to M×i of the N switch units, wherein: the i inductors of each of the inductor subunit are inverse-coupled to each other, the coupling coefficient between the M inductor subunits is less than the coupling coefficient between the i inductors in each of the inductor subunits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Delta Electronics (Shanghai) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jinping Zhou, Min Zhou, Zhangnan Xin, Xinjian Zou
  • Patent number: 11909312
    Abstract: A regulator system includes a multi-bit detector system and a multi-cell charge/discharge circuit. The multi-bit detector system includes a plurality of detectors. Each of the plurality of detectors has a predetermined threshold voltage. The multi-cell charge/discharge circuit includes a plurality of charge pumps. Each of the charge pumps is configured to generate a predetermined charge. Each of the charge pumps is associated with a predetermined threshold voltage of the detector circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chia Liang Tai
  • Patent number: 11909313
    Abstract: An operating method of a voltage converter, includes converting an input voltage to an output voltage and providing a load current corresponding to the output voltage in a pulse frequency modulation mode or a pulse width modulation mode, entering the pulse frequency modulation mode in response to an amount of the load current being less than or equal to a first threshold value, and entering the pulse width modulation mode in response to the amount of the load current being greater than a second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jaekyu Kim, Jeonghyeon Kim, Jehyung Yoon
  • Patent number: 11909314
    Abstract: The present invention provides a reconfigurable single-inductor multiport converters comprising a single inductor, a primary input port, a primary output port and a plurality of reconfigurable cells, each including a bidirectional port which is reconfigurable to be an auxiliary input port configured to share the inductor and work with the inductor to form an input cell or an auxiliary output port configured to work with a corresponding capacitor to form an output cell; and a plurality of switches arranged for facilitating the bidirectional port to act as auxiliary input port or auxiliary output port; and regulating bidirectional power flowing through the bidirectional port. The present invention provides a simple and low-cost solution for integrating multiple sources and loads simultaneously. The adoption of single-inductor design minimizes the use of magnetic components and the independent output cells configuration avoids cross-regulation problem among output ports, which simplifies the control design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: City University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Chi Kong Tse, Xiaolu Li
  • Patent number: 11909315
    Abstract: A switching regulator includes a power stage circuit and a controller circuit. The controller circuit includes a first amplification circuit, a second amplification circuit, a ramp signal generation circuit, and a comparator. The first amplification circuit generates an amplification signal according to a difference between a low-pass filtered signal and a feedback signal. The second amplification circuit generates an adjustment signal according to a difference between the feedback signal and a fast response signal. The comparator generates a pulse width modulation signal according to a difference between the amplification signal and a ramp signal to generate a switch control signal. The adjustment signal adaptively adjusts the amplification signal or the ramp signal. The low-pass filtered signal is related to a signal generated by filtering out higher frequency part of the reference signal, and the reference signal is related to a dynamic change of a target level of the output voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yung-Chun Chuang, Huan-Chien Yang
  • Patent number: 11909316
    Abstract: Circuits and methods for protecting the switches of charge pump-based power converters from damage if a VOUT short circuit event occurs and/or if VIN falls rapidly with respect to VX or VOUT. A general embodiment includes a VX Detection Block coupled to the core block of a power converter. The VX Detection Block is coupled to VX and to a control circuit that disables operations of an associated converter circuit upon detection of large, rapid falls in VX during the dead time between clock phase signals, thereby prevent damaging current spikes. Some embodiments include a VIN Detection Block configured to detect and prevent excessive in-rush current due to rapidly falling values of VIN to the power converter. The VIN Detection Block is coupled to VIN, and to VX or VOUT in some embodiments, and to a control circuit to that disables operation of an associated converter circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: pSemi Corporation
    Inventor: Antony Christopher Routledge
  • Patent number: 11909317
    Abstract: A system may include a power converter having a maximum allowable input power drawn from a power source, an energy storage element coupled to an output of the power converter at a top plate of the energy storage element, wherein the energy storage element is configured to store excess energy, and control circuitry configured to, when an input power of the power converter exceeds the maximum allowable input power, cause excess energy stored in the energy storage element to be consumed by circuitry coupled to the output of the power converter, and in order to maintain positive voltage headroom for the circuitry coupled to the output of the power converter, selectively couple a bottom plate of the energy storage element to the power source such that excess energy stored by the circuitry coupled to the output of the power converter is consumed from the energy storage device when the input power of the power converter exceeds the maximum allowable input power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.
    Inventors: Eric J. King, Ajit Sharma, Lingli Zhang, Christian Larsen, Graeme G. Mackay
  • Patent number: 11909319
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods (100) and to a device (200) for operating voltage transformers (210, 220) connected in parallel, wherein the voltage transformers (210, 220) are operated in different operating modes (120, 130) as a function of a determined temperature (Tist) in order to avoid overheating of an individual voltage transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gholamabas Esteghlal, Markus Klein
  • Patent number: 11909320
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes transmitting multi-phase pulse power from power sourcing equipment to a powered device in a data center, wherein the multi-phase pulse power comprises multiple phases of power delivered in a sequence of pulses defined by alternating low direct current voltage states and high direct current voltage states, and synchronizing the pulses at the power sourcing equipment with the pulses at the powered device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Anthony O'Brien, Joel Richard Goergen, Chad M. Jones, Jason DeWayne Potterf, George Allan Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 11909321
    Abstract: There is provided a power supply controller including: a monitor voltage generation part configured to generate a monitor voltage according to a primary voltage of a transformer that forms an insulated switching power supply; a sample/hold part configured to sample/hold the monitor voltage and output a feedback voltage; and a controller configured to turn on/off a primary current of the transformer by a fixed on-time method according to the feedback voltage, wherein the sample/hold part samples/holds the primary voltage at a plurality of different timings and outputs one of a plurality of hold values as the feedback voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Sato, Yohei Akamatsu, Satoru Nate, Hiroaki Sawaoka
  • Patent number: 11909322
    Abstract: Disclosed are an isolation type power conversion method based on demagnetization iteration control and a power conversion circuit. The power conversion circuit comprises a high-frequency transformer, wherein a primary side of the high-frequency transformer is electrically connected with a primary side power tube in a power switch tube circuit, a secondary side of the high-frequency transformer is electrically connected with a charging capacitor circuit and an output feedback circuit through a secondary side synchronous rectifier tube, and the primary side and the secondary side of the high-frequency transformer are electrically connected with a power conversion integrated control chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: WUXI SI-POWER MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ye Li, Feiming Huang, Jie He
  • Patent number: 11909323
    Abstract: A power converter includes a primary side circuit, a secondary side circuit, a transformer, and a controller. A primary side of the transformer is connected to the primary side circuit, and a secondary side of the transformer is connected to the secondary side circuit. The primary side circuit includes a resonant circuit. The secondary side circuit is configured to supply electric energy to the transformer. The transformer is configured to supply the electric energy to the primary side circuit. The primary side circuit is configured to convert the electric energy. The controller is connected to the secondary side circuit, and is configured to control, in a control cycle, the secondary side circuit to supply the electric energy to the transformer. Duration of the control cycle is greater than or equal to duration of a resonance cycle of the resonant circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI DIGITAL POWER TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tianyu Wang, Weiping Liu
  • Patent number: 11909324
    Abstract: A trans-inductor voltage regulator (TLVR) includes at least two voltage converter phases configured to receive a common input voltage and to provide an output voltage on an output of the voltage converter, an associated coupled inductor, and a compensation inductor. Each coupled inductor includes a primary winding magnetically coupled to a secondary winding. For each primary winding, a first terminal is coupled to the output of the associated voltage converter, and a second terminal of the primary winding is coupled to a load. A first terminal of the compensation inductor is coupled to a ground plane, and each secondary winding is coupled in series with the compensation inductor, with a last secondary being coupled to the ground plane. The compensation inductor is a nonlinear inductor exhibiting a first inductance level at a first current level, and a second inductance level different from the first inductance level at a second current level different from the first current level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Shiguo Luo, Wickman Wu, Guangyong Zhu
  • Patent number: 11909325
    Abstract: A synchronous rectifier control circuit, used with a synchronous rectification circuit having a primary switch and a synchronous rectifier, having: a drain-source threshold setting circuit, configured to provide a dynamic drain-source voltage threshold based on a drain-source voltage across the synchronous rectifier; a primary switch detecting circuit, configured to provide a primary switch state indicating signal based on a comparison result of the drain-source voltage and the dynamic drain-source voltage threshold; and an on-control circuit, configured to provide a synchronous on signal to turn on the synchronous rectifier when the drain-source voltage decreases to the turn-on threshold, on the premise that the primary switch state indicating signal indicates an on state of the primary switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuedong Chen
  • Patent number: 11909326
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an isolated power converter having an input connected to an input dc power source, a first output and a second output, and a non-isolated power converter having an input connected to the second output of the isolated power converter, wherein the first output of the isolated power converter and an output of the non-isolated power converter are connected in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Heping Dai, Liming Ye, Dianbo Fu, Daoshen Chen
  • Patent number: 11909327
    Abstract: In a half-bridge module for an inverter, semiconductor switches and signal and power connections are arranged on a first surface of a substrate and coated with a casting compound, and external connection contacts for the signal and power connections extend through the casting compound to the exterior. In various embodiments, the external connection contacts extend from the casting compound from four second surfaces that are orthogonal to the first surface, and have a first right angle bend outside the casting compound, such that the ends of the external connection contacts are perpendicular to the first surface. The invention also relates to a corresponding inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Manuel Raimann, Ivonne Trenz
  • Patent number: 11909328
    Abstract: A submodule for conversion of DC power capable of a plurality thereof being connected in series and used for DC-DC conversion in accordance with the present invention comprises: a power switching element for switching DC power supply to convert a source of DC including voltage transformation; a DC capacitor for storing DC power opened or closed by the power switching element; a power supply unit for supplying power required to drive the submodule from the DC capacitor; a submodule controller for controlling whole operation of the submodule; memory for storing data required for operating the submodule controller; and a communicating unit for performing data communication with an external device; wherein the submodule controller may perform a program update during a start sequence of the submodule or during a stop sequence thereof, while DC-DC conversion is operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HYOSUNG HEAVY INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Dong Min Choi
  • Patent number: 11909329
    Abstract: A semiconductor unit includes a semiconductor device, a controller, and a resistor. The semiconductor device includes a transistor arranged between a positive electrode of a battery and an inverter circuit electrically connected to the battery. The controller is connected to a control terminal of the transistor and configured to control the transistor. The resistor arranged between the control terminal and the controller. The controller controls the transistor so that when a current flowing to the transistor is greater than or equal to a threshold value, the transistor is deactivated. The resistor has a resistance value that is greater than or equal to 100 ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mineo Miura, Masashi Hayashiguchi, Jun Terada
  • Patent number: 11909330
    Abstract: A current control device and a power conversion system employing the current control device are provided. The current control device controls N power conversion unit(s), where N is a positive integer. The N power conversion units are connected in parallel when N is greater than 1. Each power conversion unit includes a signal input terminal and a current-controlled output terminal electrically connected to an external circuit. The current control device includes a first current sensor and an error compensator. The first current sensor samples a current flowing through the external circuit and acquires a sampling value. The error compensator receives the sampling value and a reference value and generates a compensation value accordingly, and outputs N current command(s) to the N power conversion unit(s) respectively according to the reference value and the compensation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guoqiao Shen, Guojin Xu, Ning He, Daidong Pan
  • Patent number: 11909331
    Abstract: A power supply includes an inverter configured to direct current (DC) power into alternating current (AC) power, an impedance matching circuit configured to supply the AC power to a load; and a controller configured to adjust disposition of a powering period, in which the AC power is output, and a freewheeling period, in which the AC power is not output, to adjust a power amount of the power supplied to the load through the impedance matching circuit by the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: EN2CORE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Yeong-Hoon Sohn, Se-Hong Park, Sae-Hoon Uhm
  • Patent number: 11909332
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a comb drive, a comb drive system, and a method of operating the comb drive to rotate bi-directionally in a MEMS environment. An exemplary comb drive system may include a comb drive, at least one power source, and a controller. The comb drive may include a stator comb having a first electrically conductive layer spaced apart from a second electrically conductive layer. The comb drive may also include a rotor comb having a first electrically conductive layer spaced apart from a second electrically conductive layer. The controller may be configured to apply first and second voltage levels having opposite polarities to the first and second electrically conductive layers of the rotor comb, respectively. The controller may also be configured to apply an intermediate voltage level to one of the first or second electrically conductive layers of the stator comb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING VOYAGER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qin Zhou, Youmin Wang, Yue Lu, Lingkai Kong
  • Patent number: 11909333
    Abstract: A propulsion system includes a uniform shape-shifting rotating disc member that changes its mass distribution at particular angular arc segment in a radial direction due to an electromagnetic field acting upon that angular arc segment, with no eccentric mechanical trajectory to guide a mass being required. The disc member has a multiplicity of shape-shifting arc segments that can respond to electromagnetic fields acting on them. Each shape-shifting arc segment passes a shape-shifting region of the apparatus at a frequency of rotation of the encoded motor multiplied by the number of such arc segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: Michael Mark Anthony
  • Patent number: 11909335
    Abstract: An electrostatic chuck includes a base body having a placement surface on which a suction target object is placed, and an electrode embedded in the base body. The base body is provided with a groove that opens to the placement surface-side and does not reach the electrode. Aloes-resistance region made of ceramics and a high-resistance region made of ceramics having a volume resistivity higher than the low-resistance region are sequentially arranged from a side close to the groove between a bottom surface of the groove and the electrode, in a thickness direction of the base body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Onuma, Keiichi Takemoto
  • Patent number: 11909336
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an actuator. The actuator includes at least two iron cores, each iron core including a pole extending in a first direction parallel to a direction of gravity; a permanent magnet disposed between the at least two iron cores so as to generate a magnetic field along a shape of a combination of the at least two iron cores arranged so as to be adjacent to each other in a direction not parallel to the first direction; and a winding wound around the pole of each of the at least two iron cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: JunYoung Yoon, JaeWoo Jung, EunKyu Kim, HyeongMin Yoon
  • Patent number: 11909337
    Abstract: A dielectric elastomer power generation system A1 includes a dielectric elastomer power generation element 3 having a dielectric elastomer layer 31 and a pair of electrode layers 32 sandwiching the dielectric elastomer layer 31. The dielectric elastomer power generation system A1 further includes a piezoelectric element 1 and a multi-stage voltage multiplier/rectifier circuit 2 that boosts and rectifies the voltage generated by the piezoelectric element 1 and applies the resulting voltage as an initial voltage to the dielectric elastomer power generation element 3. This configuration enables the system to be constructed at a lower cost and increase the amount of power generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiki Chiba, Mikio Waki, Makoto Takeshita, Mitsugu Uejima
  • Patent number: 11909338
    Abstract: An electrical current generating device having a sound wave force magnifying structure in the form of a force transmission pin which is longitudinally slidable within a body bore and having a proximal end of a large area for receiving sound wave forces, and having a greatly reduced area distal end which bears on a piezoelectric element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: John M. Leslie
  • Patent number: 11909339
    Abstract: In a resonance suppression control device that controls suppression of vibrations in a resonance frequency in each vibration mode of a control target having a plurality of vibration modes, a configuration that is simple, and can suppress vibrations in a resonance frequency in the plurality of vibration modes is provided. A control device is a resonance suppression control device that controls suppression of vibrations in a resonance frequency in each vibration mode of a control target having a plurality of vibration modes. The control device includes a plurality of feedback loops that provide negative feedback of output of the control target corresponding to the plurality of vibration modes to an input side. The plurality of feedback loops respectively include band-pass filters that extract one or more vibration modes from the plurality of vibration modes, phase compensators, and amplitude adjusters. The band-pass filters and the phase compensators function as differentiators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoji Masui
  • Patent number: 11909340
    Abstract: A motor vibration method and a motor vibration device are provided. The motor vibration method includes: receiving a vibration instruction, and acquiring target environmental data by a preset sensor, wherein the target environmental data includes one or more of environmental noise data, acceleration data and/or pressure data; determining a first vibration signal according to the target environmental data; generating a target vibration signal according to the first vibration signal and a preset second vibration signal, wherein a first frequency of the first vibration signal is greater than a second frequency of the second vibration signal; and controlling the motor to vibrate according to the target vibration signal. The method combines a traditional vibration reminding effect and a sound reminding effect provided by adding the medium- and high-frequency signal, thereby enhancing the reminding efficiency by means of motor vibration and increasing the successful rate of message delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yajun Zheng, Yulei Zhang, Chengyan Sang
  • Patent number: 11909341
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a power conversion device capable of suppressing an increase in a current flowing through a motor even if a voltage command exceeds the amplitude of a carrier wave. In order to achieve the above object, the power conversion device controls the driving of a motor by converting a DC voltage into a voltage based on a voltage command by an operation of a switching circuit and includes: a modulated wave generator that generates a first modulated wave from the voltage command; and a control signal generator that generates a control signal for controlling the operation of the switching circuit from the first modulated wave and a carrier wave. The modulated wave generator generates a square wave based on a voltage command norm as the first modulated wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusaku Onuma, Takuya Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11909342
    Abstract: Two inverters (10) provided at respective both ends of open-end windings (8) are appropriately controlled. As control regions (R) of a rotating electrical machine (80), a first speed region (VR1) and a second speed region (VR2) in which the rotational speed of the rotating electrical machine (80) is higher than in the first speed region (VR1) for the same torque are set, and in the second speed region (VR2), a rotating electrical machine control device (1) controls both inverters (10), a first inverter (11) and a second inverter (12), by mixed pulse width modulation control in which control is performed such that a plurality of pulses with different patterns are outputted during a first period (T1) which is a half cycle of electrical angle, and an inactive state continues during a second period (T2) which is the other half cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: AISIN CORPORATION, NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Subrata Saha, Hiroki Iwai, Takashi Kosaka, Hiroaki Matsumori, Naoto Saito, Yoshinobu Ito, Isao Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11909343
    Abstract: A motor-driving apparatus for driving a motor having a plurality of windings respectively corresponding to a plurality of phases is provided. The motor-driving apparatus includes a first inverter having a plurality of first switching devices and connected to first ends of the plurality of windings and a second inverter having a plurality of second switching devices and connected to second ends of the plurality of windings. A third switching device is configured to selectively connect and disconnect points at which a number of turns of each of the windings is divided in a preset ratio. A controller is configured to adjust an on/off state of the first to third switching devices based on required output of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Kang Ho Jeong, Jong Kyong Lim, Suk Hyun Lim, Ji Woong Jang, Beom Sik Kim, Sang Cheol Shin