Abstract: Embodiments relate to a system comprising: a first module. The first module comprises a power receiving module configured to receive an input power from an energy source. The system further comprises a second module. The second module comprises a power conversion module configured to convert the input power to an output power. The system further comprises a third module. The third module comprises a control module for configuring the first module or the second module to perform a charging operation or a discharging operation. The first module, the second module and the third module are functionally integrated in the system to perform multiple modes of the charging operation or the discharging operation. The third module controls an impedance of the input power and the output power in the second module.

Abstract: A high-voltage isolation transformer utilizing balun cores for transferring an alternating current signal from a first circuit to an output circuit, and a high voltage generator, such as a Cockcroft-Walton multiplier to apply a high direct current voltage bias with a high degree of voltage isolation between the first circuit and the output circuit. Multiple balun core transformers can be used in order to reduce the voltage rise between each individual transformer.

Abstract: An enhanced variable impedance transformer is disclosed for controlling the power from an alternating input power source to a load in accordance with a direct current control signal. The variable impedance transformer comprises a first and a second annular saturable reactor core and an annular power core with a power input winding being simultaneously wound about the annular power core and the first and second annular saturable reactor cores. A power output winding is wound about the annular power core for transferring power to the load. The power input windings are connected to the alternating input power source for establishing a magnetic flux in the annular power core and in the first and second annular saturable reactor cores.

Abstract: The battery charger including a power factor correcting and voltage regulating apparatus having an inductor through which current is modulated by a modulator to obtain an efficient regulation and an efficient power factor correction. According to a first embodiment, the modulator comprises two rectifying elements connected to two controllable high frequency bidirectional switch elements. According to a second embodiment, the modulator comprises a rectifying element connected to a controllable high frequency switch. According to a third embodiment, an efficient battery charger is provided. It comprises an inverter including four controllable high frequency bidirectional switch elements connected in a bridge configuration. According to a fourth embodiment, a two-part battery charger is provided. It has an indicator for indicating quality of the coupling between the two parts thereof. According to a fifth embodiment, a two-part battery charger is provided.

Abstract: An improved power supply device is disclosed where the filament (2) of a transmitter tube (1) is powered by an AC generator (18) via a transformer (12) and a rectifier (24), and where the AC generator (18) receives a feedback via the bifilar winding (5) of a pulse transformer (3).

Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for an improved variable impedance transformer for controlling the power from an alternating input power source to a load in accordance with a direct current control signal. The invention comprises a DC control winding simultaneously wound about a plurality of saturable reactor cores and a plurality of AC power input windings simultaneously wound about a power core and each of the saturable reactor cores. A power output winding is wound about the power core for delivering power to the load. A low impedance equalizing winding is wound about the saturable reactor cores for shunting any resultant alternating voltage as a result of physical variations between the saturable reactor cores.

Abstract: Induction heating apparatus, e.g. for melting, has induction coil sections, each associated with a respective zone of the melt or other work load, the power applied to each section from a supply being controlled individually through a saturable reactor respective to each section and each operable to shunt a proportion of power applicable in that section in response to regulation of excitation of the respective reactor related to a demand signal derived from the operation of the respective zone, so that the temperature in each zone is regulated independently of the regulation of the other zone(s).

Abstract: A magnetically controlled variable transformer comprising magnetic cores and windings by which to accurately and reliably control electrical AC output power. The cores and windings act as a continuously variable turns-ratio transformer for use primarily at high power frequency applications (e.g. 400 KHz or higher), such as in aircraft and aerospace vehicles. The transformer of the present invention is implemented by coupling a 2-core variable saturable transformer to a fixed turns ratio linear transformer. By varying a DC control current to a DC control winding which is magnetically coupled to the saturable transformer, the AC output voltage at a resistive or reactive load can be varied from zero to full power, whereby the control range of the transformer can be maximized.

Abstract: A current balancer for balancing one or more currents provided from a three-phase source to a load includes three current transformer/full-wave rectifier bridge sections and one or more saturable core reactors. Each of the current transformer/full-wave rectifier bridge sections is to be connected to a respective one of the phase lines, and a saturable core reactor is to be connected into each phase line whose current is to be controlled. The outputs of all three current transformer/full-wave rectifier bridge sections are connected in electrical parallel to provide a single direct current control current to the saturable core reactor(s).

Abstract: An inductive component for universal use in any electrical/electronic circuits, whose coefficient of self-induction (L) is independent of the signal, is constant, electrically controllable and can be varied significantly. The component (10) comprises two mutually independent, identical ring-shaped and self-contained ferro-magnetic cores (11, 12) which individually carry the partial windings (15.1, 15.2) of an induction winding (15) and jointly carry a control winding (17). The direction of coiling of the windings (15.1, 15.2, 17) is such that the magnetic fields produced by currents through the windings are mutually weakened, but in the other core (12) they are reinforced. The component (10) is connected via its induction winding (15) to a controlled circuit (25), and via its control winding (17) to a controlling circuit (27), or forms with its windings (15, 17) an element of this circuit (25, 27).

Abstract: A multivibrator circuit is provided having two power capacitors C1 and C2 in a power part, a primary winding N1 of a transformer T, as well as two switching transistors Q1 and Q2, and two diodes D3, D4. A positive feedback coupling is provided via the transformer winding N2 and the base resistor RB. The automatic frequency control is switched by an electrically contollable inductive component 10, which is connected in parallel to the transformer winding N2 and the base resistor RB. The component 10 comprises a control winding 17 which jointly surrounds two identical annular cores 11, 12 and comprises an induction winding 15, which comprises a series connection of two partial windings. The partial windings individually wind around one of the ring cores 11, 12. The linearly-acting inductivity L for the current i, running through the induction winding 15, can be varied via a control current i over a wide range (1:100).

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling electrical characteristics in an alternating current system includes a first level of magnetic amplifiers which are responsive to a primary direct current control signal. The magnetic amplifiers provide secondary control signals in response to the primary control signal. The secondary control signals control a second level which includes a magnetic amplifier having gate windings to which the alternating current to be controlled is connected. Depending upon the nature of the primary control signal, the current magnitude or voltage magnitude of the alternating current can be controlled, both in relation to other alternating currents and in relation to a predetermined current or voltage magnitude.

Abstract: A transformer with twelve cores, a first six arranged in parallel rows of three, a second six, in parallel rows of three at right angles to the first six and positioned between the first and second, and second and third cores of each row of the first six; four coil assemblies each comprising a primary winding and a secondary winding, each of the coil assemblies embracing legs of four cores, the primary and secondary coils being electrically connected in parallel to like coils in other coil assemblies in a 180.degree. out of phase connection. Preferably, each coil assembly includes a capacitor coil, and the capacitor coils are series connected to one another at opposite corner poles so that each capacitor coil voltage is added to each other capacitor coil, the first and fourth of said capacitor coils being electrically connected to different sides of the line voltage, and the second and third of said capacitor coils being electrically connected in series to a capacitor.