Delta Electronics, Inc.

Delta Electronics (shanghai) Co., Ltd

Peter Mantovanelli Barbosa

Chi Zhang

Ruxi Wang

Yungtaek Jang

Tomas Sadilek

Zhiyu Shen

Hao Sun

Minli Jia

Misha Kumar

Jinfa Zhang

Chih-Chiang Chan

Laszlo Huber

Brian T Irving

Jong Woo Kim

Sheng-Hua Li

Yu-Ming Chang

Kai Dong

Yuri Panov

Yihua Chang

Boyi Zhang

Jianping Ying

Jianhong Zeng

Kai Chen

Chao Yan

Milan M Jovanovic

Yiqing Ye

Jin-Fa Zhang

Chia-Hsiong Huang

Hui Huang

Wen-Chang Lee

Shuai-Lin Du

Wei Chen

Hui-Hsin Lin

Yongqiang Lang

Chung-Hwa Wei

Wenxin Zhang

Yong-Qiang Lang

Kun-Peng Wang

Wenjiang Zhao

Chia-Hsun Wu

Yang Jiao

Satyaki Mukherjee

Wei Sun

The present disclosure provides a printed circuit board (PCB) based planar winding structure for a main power transformer and/or an auxiliary power need. The PCB-based planar winding structure can confine electric field through magnetic core potential control and thus create partial discharge (PD) free design for medium voltage (MV) applications. Meanwhile, the winding structure can be formed in the PCB manufacturing process to create a more modular and reliable structure, thereby enhancing manufacturability. Techniques, such as termination treatment, primary and secondary winding arrangements, etc., can be used to control the electrical stress in the medium voltage applications.

Planar winding structure for power transformer

A power factor correction (PFC) converter includes an inductor to electrically connect to an alternating current (AC) source, a first set of switches to be electrically connected to a terminal of the inductor at one end and to a negative output terminal at an opposite end, and a second set of switches to be electrically connected to the terminal of the inductor at one end and to a positive output terminal at an opposite end. An output voltage of the PFC converter is between the positive output terminal and the negative output terminal. Two or more flying capacitors are connected between different pairs of adjacent ones of the first set of switches and corresponding adjacent ones of the second set of switches. A controller controls duty cycle of the first set of switches and the second set of switches based on balancing voltages of the two or more flying capacitors.

Flying capacitor multi-level power factor correction converter of power supply with active balancing of voltage of flying capacitors

An isolated DC-DC converter is provided. The isolated DC-DC converter includes a full-bridge switching stage, a resonant network, a transformer, an output stage, an isolated charge sensor and a switch controller. The full-bridge switching stage has at least four active switches. The resonant network has a plurality of inductors and plurality of capacitors. The transformer is connected to the resonant network. The output stage is connected to the transformer and is configured to generate an output voltage or current. The isolated charge sensor is connected to the resonant network to generate a resonant inductor current charge signal. The switch controller generates and provides control signals to the at least four active switches based on at least the resonant inductor current charge signal and the output voltage or current.

Isolated resonant DC-DC converter

The present disclosure provides a high voltage device built from modular low voltage cells. Each low voltage cell includes a plurality of low voltage semiconductor devices and one or more low voltage passive components. Each cell can be a current-bidirectional two-quadrant switch or a four-quadrant switch. All the cells may be identical and controlled with a delay time in between. Therefore, the total on and off time of the high voltage device can be controlled to reduce the output equivalent dv/dt. The cell's voltage balancing can be achieved through a control algorithm disclosed herein.

High voltage device built from modular low voltage devices and operation methods thereof

The present disclosure provides a three-level rectification DC/DC converter including primary and secondary circuits and a resonant tank circuit. A voltage between two primary terminals is a first voltage. The secondary circuit includes a flying capacitor, a switch bridge arm, and a capacitor bridge arm. The switch bridge arm includes four switches serially connected. Two terminals of the flying capacitor are respectively connected between the first and second switches and connected between the third and fourth switches. Two secondary terminals are respectively connected between the second and third switches and connected between two output capacitors of the capacitor bridge arm. In two consecutive periods of the first voltage, the first and second switches are in an on state for a preset time length after two falling edges respectively, and the third and fourth switches are in the on state for the preset time length after two rising edges respectively.

Three-level rectification DC/DC converter

The present disclosure provides a three-level rectification DC/DC converter including primary and secondary circuits and a resonant tank circuit. A voltage between two primary terminals is a first voltage. The secondary circuit includes two clamping switches, a switch bridge arm, and a capacitor bridge arm. The switch bridge arm includes four switches serially connected. The two clamping switches are connected in series between a node between the first and second switches and a node between the third and fourth switches. Two secondary terminals are respectively connected between the second and third switches and connected between two output capacitors of the capacitor bridge arm. A node between the two clamping switches is connected between the two output capacitors. The second and third switches are at least in an on state for a preset time length after falling and rising edges in a period of the first voltage respectively.

A novel phase-shift based modulation strategy is disclosed that enables a DC-DC converter to operate with zero voltage-switching (ZVS) across wide voltage and power range. The converter operates at a fixed fundamental frequency, with the output current controlled based on an amount of phase shift of the fundamental component at the output of an inverter portion of the converter. To achieve soft switching a rectifier portion of the converter is controlled to phase shift the fundamental component of the rectifier voltage observed at a rectifier reference terminal. More specifically, by requiring a phase shift of the voltage at the rectifier terminal relative to the output voltage of the inverter, the inverter current is such that ZVS is achieved. A converter and method are provided to implement DC-DC conversion with soft switching.

Soft-switched resonant DC-DC converter with wide gain range

The present disclosure provides a motor drive integrated on-board charger to reduce the quantity of components in an electric system of an electric vehicle. Reduction of components is achieved by utilizing the motor and the motor driving inverter as a part of the on-board charger in the charging mode. By controlling relays, electrical connections of the system may be reconfigured according to its mode of operation. In one aspect, the motor and the motor driving inverter play the roles of a boost PFC, a current regulator, or both.

Electric system of electric vehicle

The present disclosure provides a single- and multi-phase DC/DC converter and a control method thereof that can offer a wide range of voltage conversion ratio by substantially reducing the switching frequency range, thereby resulting in performance improvement. Reduction in the switching frequency range is achieved by controlling the output voltage or current with a combination of variable duty ratio, variable frequency, and delay-time control.

Isolated resonant converter and control method thereof

A switch circuit electrically connected to a power source and a first control source and including a plurality of switch bridge arms is provided. Each of the plurality of switch bridge arms includes a first switch and a second switch electrically connected in series. A loop formed by the first switch, the second switch and the power source is defined as a power loop. A loop formed by the first control source and the first switch is defined as a first control loop. A first mutual inductance is formed between the power loop and the first control loop. Among all the first switches, the first switch with the longer power loop has the smaller first mutual inductance.

Switch circuit and power module

The present disclosure provides an isolated multi-phase DC/DC converter with a reduced quantity of blocking capacitors. In one aspect, the converter includes a multi-phase transformer having a primary circuit and a secondary circuit magnetically coupled to the primary circuit, the primary circuit having a first quantity of terminals, and the secondary circuit having a second quantity of terminals; a third quantity of blocking capacitors, each being electrically connected in series to a respective one of the terminals of the primary circuit; and a fourth quantity of blocking capacitors, each being electrically connected in series to a respective one of the terminals of the secondary circuit. The third quantity is one less than the first quantity. The fourth quantity is one less than the second quantity.

Isolated multi-phase DC/DC converter with reduced quantity of blocking capacitors

The present disclosure provides a three-phase AC/DC converter aiming for low input current harmonic. The converter includes an input stage for receiving a three-phase AC input voltage, an output stage for at least one load, and one or more switching conversion stages, each stage including a plurality of half bridge modules. The switches in each module operate with a substantially fixed 50% duty cycle and are connected in a specific pattern to couple a DC-link and a neutral node of the input voltage. The AC/DC converter further includes one or more controllers adapted to vary the switching frequency of the switches in the switching conversion stages based on at least one of load voltage, load current, input voltage, and DC-link voltage. The converter can also include one or more decoupling stages, such as, inductive components adapted to decouple the output stage from the switching conversion stages.

Multi-phase AC/DC converter

An efficient control method for an isolated multilevel DC/DC resonant converter achieves a wide output voltage range with a narrow device switching frequency range, relative to the output voltage range and the device switching frequency range of the prior art. At any given time, a control circuit selects one of three different modulation schemes to operate the primary-side switching devices of the resonant converter based on at least one of output voltage, output current, input signal, and one or more external control signals. Together with a selected device switching frequency, the three modulation schemes generate different voltage waveforms to a primary-side transformer, which are coupled to the secondary-side to provide different output voltages.

Isolated DC/DC converters for wide output voltage range and control methods thereof

A bidirectional DC-DC converter with three or more ports is described along with a method of operation thereof. The converter utilizes a common transformer for all ports and allows for power transfer from any port to any or all of the remaining ports. The converter may utilize a controller which implements variable-frequency control, delay-time control, and/or phase-delay control to achieve power transfer as desired between the converter ports. In some cases, power transfer between ports can operate similar to a series-resonant converter or a dual active bridge converter.

Multiple-port bidirectional converter and control method thereof

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Peter Mantovanelli Barbosa