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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2014
Applicant:
Eisergy Limited, Dublin, IE;
Inventor:
George Young, Dublin, IE;
Assignee:
Icergi Limited, Dublin, IE;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 1/42 (2007.01); H02M 1/34 (2007.01); H02M 7/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 1/34 (2013.01); H02M 1/42 (2013.01); H02M 1/4225 (2013.01); H02M 7/06 (2013.01); H02M 2001/346 (2013.01); Y02B 70/126 (2013.01); Y02B 70/1491 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present application relates to AC power supplies and in particular to power factor correction circuits in AC-DC converters. The application provides an active power factor correction circuit in which zero voltage switching is inherently achieved using a passive snubbing approach employing a saturable transformer.