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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 22, 2013
Applicants:

Institut Polytechnique DE Grenoble, Grenoble, FR;

Centre National DE LA Recherche Scientifique, Paris, FR;

Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, FR;

Inventors:

Hieu Trinh, Saint Martin d'Heres, FR;

Nicolas Rouger, Grenoble, FR;

Jean-Christophe Crebier, Grenoble, FR;

Yves Lembeye, Saint Georges de Commiers, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/335 (2006.01); H02M 1/36 (2007.01); H02M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/33507 (2013.01); H02M 1/36 (2013.01); H02M 3/33584 (2013.01); H02M 2001/0074 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention relates to a voltage converter (), including: a plurality of two-way conversion cells (), each cell comprising a primary circuit (, Wp), and a secondary circuit (, Ws) that is insulated from the primary circuit, wherein each circuit can be separately activated in order to supply an output voltage from the converter; and at least one control circuit () configured to, in a first operating mode, control the activated cells in order to transfer electrical energy from the primary circuit to the secondary circuit, and control the inactivated cells in order to transfer electrical energy from the secondary circuit to the primary circuit.


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