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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2013
Applicant:
Tesla Motors, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventor:
Jean-Pierre Krauer, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H02J 7/04 (2006.01); H02J 7/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A charging method using a multiphase line voltage for charging an energy storage system (ESS) using a polyphase motor drive circuit communicated to a polyphase motor, the polyphase motor drive circuit including a plurality M of driver stages, one driver stage for each phase of the polyphase motor with each driver stage coupled across the energy storage system.