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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
David J. Perreault, Andover, MA (US);
Khurram K. Afridi, Boulder, CO (US);
Juan A. Santiago-Gonzalez, Cambridge, MA (US);
David M. Otten, Newton, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A circuit includes a reconfigurable rectifier, a voltage balancer, and a pair of converters. The reconfigurable rectifier includes an ac input port and three output ports. In a first configuration, the reconfigurable rectifier can deliver power at a first output port and, in a second configuration, to at least a second output port. The voltage balancer includes first and second ports coupled to second and third output ports of the reconfigurable rectifier and is configured to balance received voltage at the first and second ports. The first converter has an input coupled to the first port of the voltage balancer and an output at which a first converted voltage signal is provided. The second converter has an input coupled to the second port of the voltage balancer and an output at which a second converted voltage signal is provided.