Invention Application
- Patent Title: RESONANT CONVERTERS WITH VARIABLE INDUCTOR
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Application No.: US15159159Application Date: 2016-05-19
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Publication No.: US20170338730A1Publication Date: 2017-11-23
- Inventor: Harish Suryanarayana , Jiaqi Liang , Jukka-Pekka Kittila , Wen Ouyang
- Applicant: ABB Technology Ltd.
- Main IPC: H02M1/088
- IPC: H02M1/088 ; H01F27/24 ; H01F27/28 ; H02M3/335 ; H02M7/537 ; H02M1/00

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
- US09979273B2 Resonant converters with variable inductor Public/Granted day:2018-05-22
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