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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2016
Valeo Siemens Eautomotive France Sas, Cergy, FR;
VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE FRANCE SAS, Cergy, FR;
Abstract
The invention concerns a method for charging an electrical energy storage unit, in particular installed in a vehicle, from a continuous charging terminal, using a DC/DC voltage converter to adapt the voltage between said continuous charging terminal and said electrical energy storage unit, said DC/DC voltage converter comprising at least two interleaved cells operating out of phase, each cell having respective switches; said method comprising control of the switches of said DC/DC voltage converter by pulse width modulation with a duty cycle to adapt the voltage between said continuous charging terminal and the electrical energy storage unit, said duty cycle having a given value αthat is substantially constant over several interleaving cycles.