The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2016
Volterra Semiconductor Llc, San Jose, CA (US);
Anthony J. Stratakos, Kentfield, CA (US);
Michael D. McJimsey, Danville, CA (US);
Ilija Jergovic, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Alexandr Ikriannikov, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Artin Der Minassians, Oakland, CA (US);
Kaiwei Yao, San Jose, CA (US);
David B. Lidsky, Oakland, CA (US);
Marco A. Zuniga, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ana Borisavljevic, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Volterra Semiconductor LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An electric power system includes N electric power sources and N switching circuits, where N is an integer greater than one. Each switching circuit includes an input port electrically coupled to a respective one of the N electric power sources, an output port, and a first switching device adapted to switch between its conductive and non-conductive states to transfer power from the input port to the output port. The output ports of the N switching circuits are electrically coupled in series and to a load to establish an output circuit. Each of the N switching circuits uses an interconnection inductance of the output circuit as a primary energy storage inductance of the switching circuit.