Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Power balancing in a multi-phase system
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Application No.: US14985319Application Date: 2015-12-30
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Publication No.: US10530161B2Publication Date: 2020-01-07
- Inventor: Lesley Chisenga , Aaron Jungreis , Paul Garrity
- Applicant: SolarCity Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend and Stockton LLP
- Main IPC: H02J3/00
- IPC: H02J3/00 ; H02J3/38 ; H02J1/10 ; H02J3/26 ; H02M7/44

Abstract:
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for balancing the power output to each phase of a set of micro-inverters. The method of some embodiments is performed by a gateway, which receives output messages from a plurality of micro-inverters. The gateway identifies the phase of each micro-inverter and calculates the output of the plurality of micro-inverters to each power line of a multi-phase system. The gateway then sends control signals to the micro-inverters to control the output of each micro-inverter to maintain a balanced aggregate power output to each phase of the power grid.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160248256A1 POWER BALANCING IN A MULTI-PHASE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2016-08-25
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