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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2020
Power Research Electronics B.v., Breda, NL;
Mike Van Den Heuvel, Tilburg, NL;
Jacobes Harmen Schijffelen, Breda, NL;
Gautham Ram Chandra Mouli, Delft, NL;
Dolf Henricus Jozef Van Casteren, Megen, NL;
Power Research Electronics B.V., Breda, NL;
Abstract
A bidirectional power converter includes flyback converter units connected in parallel, each having a controller and adapted to accumulate power from a primary side during an ON time and to deliver the accumulated power to a secondary side during an OFF time, the primary and secondary sides being interchangeable as to the direction of power conversion, the controller operating at a boundary between discontinuous and continuous conduction modes and performing valley switching when switching from OFF to ON, one converter unit operating as a master wherein the controller is adapted to control the length of ON time in order to feedback-control an overall current output of the converter, and each other converter unit operating as a slave wherein the controller controls the length of ON time in order to feedback-control a phase delay of ON time of the slave relative to ON time of another converter unit.