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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:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2014
Applicant:
Sunpower Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Yan Zhou, Tallahassee, FL (US);
Haiyu Zhang, College Station, TX (US);
Assignee:
SunPower Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 7/5381 (2007.01); H02M 7/48 (2007.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 7/5381 (2013.01); H02M 2007/4815 (2013.01); Y02B 70/1441 (2013.01);
Abstract
In some embodiments of the disclosed inverter topologies, an inverter may include a full bridge LLC resonant converter, a first boost converter, and a second boost converter. In such embodiments, the first and second boost converters operate in an interleaved manner. In other disclosed embodiments, the inverter may include a half-bridge inverter circuit, a resonant circuit, a capacitor divider circuit, and a transformer.