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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2021
Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (Epfl, Lausanne, CH;
Jakub Kucka, Ecublens VD, CH;
Drazen Dujic, Paudex, CH;
Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, CH;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a DC/DC converter () for transferring an active power between two DC subsystems () comprising: —a first converter stage () and a second converter stage () both configured to be selectively operated as an active inverter or as a passive rectifier; —an AC coupling circuit () for coupling the first and the second converter stage () by means of an AC power transfer; and —a control unit () configured to switch the operation mode of the first and second converter stages () depending on a measurement of an amount of power transfer through the AC coupling circuit ().