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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/335 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/335 ;
Abstract
A method and system of controlling half-bridge DC—DC converters to achieve Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS) for at least one of the switches. The soft-switching half-bridge DC—DC converter system includes soft-switching for all switches by adding an additional branch with a switch and a diode across the primary side of an isolation transformer and by applying a Duty-Cycle Shifted PWM Control.