Abstract:
A magentic configuration using a plurality of posts and spiting the primary winding on each of the posts and placing the secondary windings together with the rectifiers menas around each posts to minimise the stray and leakage inductance. In this magentic configurations there is a significant reduction of the core material and a reduction of the footprint by a better utilization of the copper. The magentic field is weaving from through a post to the other minimizing the vertical components and forcing the magentic field to be paralel with the winding reducing the ac copper losses. These properties allows this magentic strcuture to be suitable in very high frequency applications and even in application with air core. These magentic structures can be used for transformer inplementation and also for the inductive applications.
Abstract:
A method is shown to create soft transition in selected topologies by controlling and designing a current pulse injection in front of the output choke to overwhelm the output current at a certain point in the switching cycle.
Abstract:
Controlled input current distortion that reduces voltage ripple on a power factor corrected output is shown. Several methods are presented to reduce this voltage ripple so that the typical capacitor used in off line converters can be reduced in size or stress without affecting power factor significantly.
Abstract:
A portable power supply apparatus is provided. The portable power supply apparatus includes an AC-to-DC power adapter, a DC power connector, a DC-to-DC power adapter and an extension power cable. The AC-to-DC power adapter is employed for receiving AC power. The DC power connector is employed for receiving DC power. The DC-to-DC power adapter includes a first DC power input portion, a DC-to-DC power converting circuit and a first DC power output portion. The first DC power input portion is selectively connected to the AC-to-DC power adapter or the DC power connector for receiving a first input DC voltage from the AC-to-DC power adapter or a second input DC voltage from the DC power connector. The DC-to-DC power converting circuit is electrically connected to the first DC power input portion for converting the first input DC voltage or the second input DC voltage into a first DC output voltage. The first DC power output portion is electrically connected to the DC-to-DC power converting circuit for receiving and outputting the first DC output voltage. The extension power cable is connected between the AC-to-DC power adapter and the DC-to-DC power adapter and/or connected to the AC-to-DC power adapter.
Abstract:
A DC-DC switching converter device (101), in particular a quarter-brick or eighth-brick device having an industry standard pin out, comprises a pulse-width modulation circuit (132) for driving a power converting switch, a trim connector (109) for adjusting an output voltage of the device, where the device (101) is designed such that the pulse-width modulation circuit (132) is synchronizable to an external oscillator by an external synchronization signal applied to the trim connector. A DC-DC converting circuit comprises a plurality of DC-DC switching converters (101) featuring trim connectors (109) for adjusting output voltages of the converters (101), whereby the converters (101) are connected such that they share a common input bus. It further features a system EMI (electromagnetic interference) filter common to all the DC-DC switching converters (101) and an external oscillator delivering an external synchronization signal to the plurality of DC-DC switching converters (101). The external oscillator is designed such that a frequency of the external synchronization signal is higher than a free running frequency of each of the plurality of DC-DC switching converters (101). The external oscillator is connected to the trim connectors (109) of the DC-DC switching converters (101).
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for forming a magnetic component on a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board has at least one inner layer including a trace that forms a winding of the magnetic component. Another winding of the magnetic component is formed by a length of wire that is disposed externally to the printed circuit board.
Abstract:
A Low-to-High-Power, high reliability, high efficiency, small size transformer for power supply/DC—DC converter applications, using an inner layer winding constructed in a multilayers PCB and perfectly insulated with respect to the secondary, each layer having one ore more loops, interconnected to other layer by vias and contacted with simple pads, or any other contact type, including special connectors inserted in the PCB. The secondary is a special cooper strip designed as one or more one-turn strip, with pins designed for mechanical attachment and electrical contact. All the secondary strips on one side of the PCB, are perfectly symmetrical to the ones on the other side, so that they are interchangeable, and can be mounted on either side of the PCB. The secondary may be contacted directly to the strips, or with any other type of power connector inserted in the PCB. The magnetics are either E+I type, or I type, and the PCB has dedicated rectangular slots to accommodate the magnetics, and also special metalized holes to receive the secondary pins.
Abstract:
A load communication device and method is provided, that identifies and transmits to a PSU the load requirement to operate a load device that is powered by the PSU, by analyzing the characteristics of current applied to the load device by a given input voltage generated by the PSU. The load communication device is configured to transmit between the PSU and the load device solely over the 2 wire cable that extends between the PSU and the load device.
Abstract:
A method is shown to create soft transition in selected topologies by preserving the leakage inductance energy during the dead time and using several techniques to supplement the energy require to discharge the parasitic capacitance of the primary switchers and obtain zero voltage switching. One technique consists in a current pulse injection across the synchronous rectifiers during the dead time and prior the turn off of the synchronous rectifiers. A second technique consist in tailoring the magnetizing current through frequency modulation to increase the energy in the leakage inductance and use that energy to discharge the parasitic capacitance of the primary switchers and at lighter load to have a magnetizing current which exceeds the current through the output inductor at the end of the dead time. The third technique is interleaving two converters and sharing a couple inductance in a way to lower the current through each output inductor under the level of the magnetizing current at its lowest amplitude. The fourth technique is controlling the turn off timing of the primary switchers and turn on timing for the secondary synchronous rectifier and in this way to control the energy in the leakage inductance during the dead time in order to build enough energy in the leakage inductance to discharge the parasitic capacitances of the primary switchers to zero. In a given application we may use one or several of these technique function of the operating conditions.
Abstract:
A method is shown to create soft transition in selected topologies by controlling and designing the magnetizing current in the main transformer to exceed the output current at a certain point in the switching cycle.