Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Bidirectional DC converter assembly having cascade of isolated resonant converter and step-up/step-down converter
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Application No.: US16199692Application Date: 2018-11-26
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Publication No.: US10340810B2Publication Date: 2019-07-02
- Inventor: Patrick Achtzehn , Jan Korte , Jens Czichon
- Applicant: Leopold Kostal GmbH & Co. KG
- Applicant Address: DE Luedenscheid
- Assignee: Leopold Kostal GmbH & Co. KG
- Current Assignee: Leopold Kostal GmbH & Co. KG
- Current Assignee Address: DE Luedenscheid
- Agency: Brooks Kushman P.C.
- Priority: DE102016006549 20160525
- Main IPC: H02M3/18
- IPC: H02M3/18 ; H02M3/335 ; H02M3/158 ; H02M3/337 ; H02M7/757 ; H02M1/00

Abstract:
A bidirectional DC converter assembly includes two serially-arranged DC/DC converters. The first converter is a buck (or a buck/boost) converter to be connected to a high-voltage (HV) level of an electric vehicle. The second converter is a series resonant switching converter to be connected to a low-voltage (LV) of the vehicle. The series resonant switching converter of the second converter is formed by a DC/AC converter, a transformer, and an AC/DC converter, which are serially arranged in the stated order between the first converter and the LV level. A bidirectional peak current controller is associated with the first converter. The peak current controller is realized by a current measurement at an inductor of the first converter. The peak current controller uses the coil current value, which is modified with an offset value and thus has a constant sign, as a set point in controlling the first converter.
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