Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Variable inductor apparatuses systems and methods
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Application No.: US15958220Application Date: 2018-04-20
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Publication No.: US11183322B2Publication Date: 2021-11-23
- Inventor: Harish Suryanarayana , Jiaqi Liang , Jukka Pekka Kittila , Wen Ouyang
- Applicant: ABB Schweiz Ag
- Applicant Address: CH Baden
- Assignee: ABB Schweiz Ag
- Current Assignee: ABB Schweiz Ag
- Current Assignee Address: CH Baden
- Agency: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.
- Main IPC: H01F3/14
- IPC: H01F3/14 ; H01F27/28 ; H01F29/14 ; H01F27/24 ; H01F21/08

Abstract:
Unique systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses for a ZVT ZCT resonant converter with a variable resonant tank are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is a system comprising a bidirectional resonant converter comprising an input/output terminal, a switching device coupled with the input/output terminal, a resonant circuit coupled with the switching device and including a variable inductor, an output/input terminal coupled with the resonant circuit, and a DC biasing circuit operatively coupled with the variable inductor. The variable inductor comprises a toroidal core, a first winding wound around the toroidal core and coupled with the switching device and the output/input terminal, a second core structured to overlap a portion of the toroidal core, and a second winding wound around the second core and coupled with the DC biasing circuit. The DC biasing circuit is controllable to vary the inductance of the variable inductor by saturating a portion of the toroidal core.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180241300A1 VARIABLE INDUCTOR APPARATUSES SYSTEMS AND METHODS Public/Granted day:2018-08-23
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