Electric power conversion systems inventions 07/06

20060164866 - Method and apparatus for a wireless power supply: An apparatus for a wireless power supply including a mechanism for receiving a range of RF radiation across a collection of frequencies. The apparatus includes a mechanism for converting the RF radiation across the collection of frequencies, preferably at a same time into DC. A method for a wireless power...

20060164867 - Dead time control in a switching circuit: A dc-to-dc converter has two field effect transistors (35, 36) connected in series between an input terminal (37) and a ground terminal (38). Adjustment of the dead time when both transistors (35, 36) are off is carried out by providing Kelvin feedback connections (71, 72, 67, 68) directly across the...

20060164868 - Capacitively coupled power supply: A power supply includes a supply inductor and a first capacitor coupled to form a resonant circuit to generate a resonant waveform in a resonant operation, during a first portion of an operation cycle of the power supply. A charge storage element develops an output voltage to energize a load....

20060164869 - Inverter: An inverter circuit has a switching element, an inductance, a transformer, a capacitor, and a controller. The switching element is connectable between a higher potential terminal and a lower potential terminal of a direct-current power supply. The inductance is connected between the higher potential terminal and the switching element. The...

20060164870 - Switching power supply circuit: A wide-range compatible switching power supply circuit employs switching frequency varying control and allows enhancement of its AC to DC power conversion efficiency when a large AC input voltage is used. A coupled resonant circuit employing electromagnetic coupling by an isolation converter transformer is formed by providing a series resonant...

20060164871 - Switching power supply circuit: A switching power supply circuit reduces the time from start-up driving to normal operation while a soft-start is carried out with an output voltage Vout. A soft-start capacitor is charged during the start-up time. After a soft-start voltage Vz has reached a predetermined signal-output starting voltage Vlow, soft start of...

20060164872 - Switching power source device of resonance type: A switching power source device of resonance type is provided which comprises an output voltage detector 18 for detecting output voltage on a load 13 to produce a detection signal; and a control circuit 2 for applying on-off signals Vg1, Vg2 to each control terminal of first and second MOS-FETs...

20060164873 - Ac/dc converter and method of modulation thereof: A method and apparatus for modulating a discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) Boost Rectifier having a switchable booster section is disclosed. A modulation signal is defined according to the equation, TON(φ)=f1(φ)+f2(φ)+f3(φ). Here, φ defines a phase angle for an input phase voltage of the DCM Boost Rectifier; TON(φ) defines a modulation...

20060164874 - Controller for power converter: The invention relates to a control unit of an electric power conversion apparatus that can decrease the high-order harmonic content generated by resonance of the inductance component of the primary wiring connecting an AC-power supply 20 and the electric power conversion apparatus and a capacitor connected as a filter even...

20060164875 - Ac/dc converter and method of modulation thereof: An apparatus having a rectifier topology for use on a three-phase electrical system is disclosed. The apparatus includes an input filter at each phase, a rectifier set at each phase in power communication with and downstream of each respective input filter, and a separate and independent booster section at each...

20060158908 - Dc-dc converter of multi-output type: A DC-DC converter of multi-output type is provided wherein a primary winding 5a is wound around core halves 5g, 5h of a transformer 5 between first and second secondary windings 5b, 5c of transformer 5 also concentrically wound around core halves 5g, 5h to form an electromagnetic sparse coupling between...

20060158909 - Method and apparatus to control output power from a switching power supply: Techniques are disclosed to control output power from a switching power supply. For example, a switching regulator according to aspects of the present invention includes a switch to be coupled to an energy transfer element of a power supply. A controller is coupled to the switch to control a switching...

20060158910 - System, method and apparatus for controlling converters using input-output linearization: The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for controlling any type of converter using input-output linearization and leading-edge modulation. The controller includes a summing circuit connected to the converter to create a third voltage representing a difference between the first voltage and the second voltage. A gain circuit...

20060158911 - Class e amplifier with inductive clamp: A power supply including an inverter receiving a DC input signal from a DC input source (11). The inverter is implemented as a single-ended inverter. Each inverter is driven by a signal source (13A, 13B), which outputs an AC signal. The output from each inverter is input to a first...

20060158912 - Power factor corrector control device for accommodating mains voltage distortion and achieving high power factor and low harmonic current: A power factor corrector control device accomplishes control of power factor correction with a simpler and cheaper circuit, overcomes the drawback of higher current harmonics occurred in the prior art, and also accommodates mains voltage distortion. This power factor corrector control device uses a built-in circuit to discriminate the mains...

20060158913 - Half-controlled silicon-controlled rectifying system and method thereof: A half-controlled silicon control rectifying system and method thereof are provided. In this case, the first detection unit detects the zero cross phase of the triphase AC in input port thereof. The second detection unit detects the voltage of the DC bus. Then the control unit controls the silicon-controlled rectifying...

20060158914 - Power semiconductor module with reduced parasitic inductance: Proposed is a power semiconductor module with a housing and one or a plurality of half-bridge circuitries arranged therein. Each half-bridge circuitry has a first (TOP) and a second (BOT) power switch and each switch is comprised of one power transistor and a corresponding power diode (recovery diode). The power...

20060158915 - Switching regulator circuit: Provided is a switching regulator having satisfactory energy conversion efficiency during light load conditions. Such a structure is employed that an oscillating frequency for the switching regulator and a drive capability of a switch element are variable and such a control is taken that during the light load, the oscillating...

20060152947 - Current controlled switch mode power supply: A single stage switch mode power converter receives a supply line voltage and a supply line current from a power supply line, and provides one or more regulated output voltages for a load, such as an amplifier. The power converter is operable to regulate the output voltage(s) using a controller...

20060152948 - Adaptive resonant switching power system: A resonant switching power system operates with two resonant frequencies. A first frequency depends on the secondary leakage inductance of an output transformer and capacitor. The first frequency varies with changes in the load because load changes alter the leakage inductance. A second resonant frequency depends on the gate source...

20060152949 - Stage for rectifying a three-phase current: The two interphase inductors (51A, 51B) comprise a common core (52) which defines a magnetic circuit and all the windings of the two interphase inductors (51A, 51B) are wound on this common core for the magnetic coupling thereof....

20060152950 - Circuit and method for reducing voltage spikes due to magnetizing current imbalances and power converter employing the same: For use in a power converter having parallel power trains, a circuit for, and method of, reducing voltage spikes due to magnetizing current imbalances in the power trains and a power converter incorporating the circuit or the method. In one embodiment, the circuit includes: (1) a conductive bypass path coupling...

20060152951 - Bootstrap circuit for switching power supplies: A bootstrap circuit for switching power supplies (SMPS), a switching power supply including a bootstrap circuit, and an integrated circuit of a switching power supply, are provided. The bootstrap circuit (13) for switching power supplies includes a first supply voltage (Vin) coming from a first terminal and a second supply...

20060152952 - Power semiconductor module with auxiliary connection: Introduced is a power semiconductor module preferably a disk cell with a power semiconductor element arranged in the interior of the housing. In a preferred embodiment, the disk cell has two load and at least one auxiliary connection and the auxiliary connection extends from the power semiconductor element and ends...

20060152953 - Variable start-up circuit for switching regulators: The variable start-up circuits basically include a sensor, triggering transistors, current mirror, current source, an N-bit triggering circuit array, and a feedback line. If the sensing voltage does not reach the expected voltage compared to the midpoint voltage of the sensor, the output voltage of the sensor turns on the...

20060152954 - Current control circuit for controlling inrush current through an energy storage capacitor of a power supply: The present invention relates to a current control circuit for controlling inrush current through an energy storage capacitor of a power supply having an input voltage. A semiconductor device is coupled in series to the energy storage capacitor; and a control circuit produces a constant current through the semiconductor device...

20060152955 - Pulse power supply for regenerating magnetic energy: In order to provide a pulse power supply device using regenerating magnetic energy stored in a discharge circuit to a capacitor so as to use it as next discharge energy and supplying a bipolar pulse current with high repetition, a bridge circuit is composed of four inverse-conductive semiconductor switches, a...

20060146579 - Power filter circuit: The present invention discloses an improved power filter circuit, which provides a power supply integrating the passive power filter circuit and the active power filter circuit, wherein via designing the configuration of the circuit, the present invention combines the advantages of the power passive filter circuit and the active power...

20060146580 - Resonant power source apparatus: A resonant power source apparatus has a series circuit of switching elements QL and QH connected to ends of a DC power source, a series circuit of a current-resonant capacitor, a resonant reactor, and a primary winding of a transformer connected to ends of the switching element QL or QH,...

20060146581 - Power distribution device: A rack power distribution system includes a unique configuration of electrical power wiring, branch circuit panels, branch circuit breakers, and three-phase power distribution devices packaged in the compound housing that mounts within standard EIA racks. The input side receives three-phase power, includes an input breaker and an optional maintenance bypass...

20060146582 - Islanding detection method: An islanding detection method is proposed to overcome the incapability of detecting islanding operations in accordance with prior arts. A distortion for causing a variation of an AC power system is performed, and an AC power system frequency and a voltage variation are detected as the bases for determining the...

20060146583 - Stabilized power supply circuit: A stabilized power supply circuit includes a charge pump power supply circuit including four switching elements and a capacitor, and an error amplifier comparing the output voltage of the charge pump power supply circuit and a reference voltage and outputting an error signal on the basis of the difference therebetween....

20060146584 - Dc converter: A DC converter has a main switch connected in series to a primary winding of a transformer, and a series circuit of a capacitor and an auxiliary switch that is connected to both ends of the primary winding of the transformer or to both ends of the main switch, and...