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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2019
Applicant:
The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Inventor:
Kasemsan Siri, Torrance, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 3/38 (2006.01); H02M 3/335 (2006.01); H02M 7/5387 (2007.01); H02J 1/10 (2006.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 1/102 (2013.01); H02J 7/007 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus may include a group of distributed-input series-output (DISO) converters, each of which are actively controlled by a common maximum power tracking (MPT) controller. The common MPT controller is configured to actively control one of the DISO converters in the group of DISO converters to update a present group-peak power voltage of the one DISO converters while remaining DISO converters in the group of DISO converters are controlled to hold most recently grouped peak power voltages updated during their previously non-overlapping uniform time windows of active MPT control.