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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2016
Motiv Power Systems, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Jim Michael Castelaz, Alameda, CA (US);
Elias Stein, San Francisco, CA (US);
William Treichler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Motiv Power Systems, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
A system comprises a plurality of power converters, a plurality of energy storage systems, a first common node, a second common node, and zero-reference voltage node. Each power converter is coupled between one energy storage system and the first and second common nodes. The system operates to regulate power between the power converters and the first and second common nodes. Each power converter is a bi-directional power converter and each energy storage system is a battery pack. In one example, the first common node is regulated to a voltage VSPAN, and the second common node is regulated to a voltage VSCN which is the mean of all voltages output by the battery packs. In another example, the first common node is regulated to a voltage −VSPAN, and the second common node is regulated to a voltage +VSPAN. No power converter processes more than voltage VSPAN yielding high-efficiency power conversion.