Auckland Uniservices Limited

Martin Neuburger

Duleepa Jayanath Thrimawithana

Gaurav Rajesh Kalra

Udaya Kumara Madawala

Baljit Singh Riar

Steven Ian Ruddell

Regan Andrew Zane

The present disclosure relates to a boost active bridge converter, which has particular, but not sole, relevance to a converter for an inductive or capacitive (wireless) power transfer system. According to an embodiment An AC-AC converter is presented. The AC-AC converter comprises a bridge circuit including at least two half-bridge converters, each half bridge converter comprising a first switch at an upper end and a second switch at a lower end, a capacitor connected to each half-bridge converter, the half bridge converters being connected to each other between the respective first switches and second switches thereof, the upper ends of each half bridge converters being connectable to a primary energy source, wherein the converter is operable to provide a controllable AC output.

AC-AC converter

A converter including a bridge circuit having a first leg and a second leg, each leg including a high switch and a low switch, the high switches being connected to a first energy source and the low switches being connected to ground, a coupling network(s) having a first connection between the switches of the first leg and a second connection between the switches of the second leg, and a second (or multiple secondary) energy source(s) connected between the coupling network(s) and ground, wherein the coupling network comprises a first inductive element connected between the second energy source and the switches of the first leg, and a second inductive element connected between the second energy source and the switches of the second leg.

Converter

An IPT primary or secondary circuit includes a converter connected to a primary energy source and a compensation network. A supplementary energy source is connected to the compensation network and the converter transfers energy between the primary energy source or another IPT primary or secondary circuit and the supplementary energy source.

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