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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 21, 2016
Applicant:

Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc., Blacksburg, VA (US);

Inventors:

Virginia Li, Blacksburg, VA (US);

Pei-Hsin Liu, Blackburg, VA (US);

Qiang Li, Blacksburg, VA (US);

Fred C. Lee, Blacksburg, VA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/156 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/156 (2013.01); H02M 2003/1566 (2013.01);
Abstract

A power converter using constant on-time (COT) or ramp pulse modulation (RPM) control achieves more rapid resumption of steady-state operation after a step-up load transient by extending an on-time of a switching pulse by interrupting a ramp voltage waveform that is compared with a threshold that equals a threshold voltage at the termination of a switching pulse or increasing a voltage with which the ramp voltage is compared. These techniques are applied to both single-phase and multi-phase power converters.


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