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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2005
Kasemsan Siri, Torrance, CA (US);
Kasemsan Siri, Torrance, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
An inverter for use in connecting a DC power source to the utility grid includes a single DC-DC conversion stage, maximum (source) power tracking, and current control based on feed-forward compensation as a function of an input power commanding voltage, rectified utility line voltage, and either a scaled and squared inverse or a scaled inverse of RMS utility line voltage. Various embodiments also include over-voltage, over-current, under-voltage, and over-temperature protection, and a stand-by battery with its battery management control, while others adapt a multiple-channel front-end distributed power system with distributed maximum power tracking to serve as a single DC power source input to the inverter system downstream with controllers, emergency or auxiliary loads, and alternative current feedback control systems for providing an in-phase output current with respect to the utility grid voltage while absorbing maximum power available from the DC power source and minimally utilizing the stand-by battery for maximal system reliability.