APPARATUS HAVING SERIES-CONNECTED SWITCHING DEVICES

    公开(公告)号:EP4432537A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-18

    申请号:EP23161480.1

    申请日:2023-03-13

    发明人: Asoodar, Mohsen

    IPC分类号: H02M1/34

    CPC分类号: H02M1/348 H02M1/344 H02M1/088

    摘要: An apparatus (100) is provided, comprising a plurality of interconnected switching devices (1, 2) at least two of which are connected in series so as to form at least one series-connection of switching devices, and a plurality of switching device voltage balancing circuits, VBCs, (3, 4) each of which corresponds to and is connected to a respective switching device (1, 2) of the at least one series-connection of switching devices (1, 2), for limiting the maximum voltage that each switching device (1, 2) of the at least one series-connection of switching devices (1, 2) is subjected to. Each of the plurality of switching device VBCs (3, 4) comprises an electrical energy storage, EES, module (6, 7), and a resistive current path (8, 9) comprising at least one resistor (10, 11), and at least one EES module voltage regulating circuitry, VRC, (12, 13) connected or connectable to the EES module (6, 7), wherein the at least one EES module VRC (12, 13) is configured such that it conducts current therethrough in a direction towards the at least one resistor (10, 11) when the voltage over the at least one EES module VRC (12, 13) is within a predefined threshold voltage range.

    BATTERY PROTECTION CHIP, BATTERY SYSTEM, AND BATTERY PROTECTION METHOD

    公开(公告)号:EP4366116A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-08

    申请号:EP22903247.9

    申请日:2022-11-28

    IPC分类号: H02J7/00 H02H7/18 H02M1/088

    摘要: A battery protection chip, a battery system, and a battery protection method. The battery protection chip (10) comprises: a discharge voltage limiting detection circuit (11) used for detecting a discharge drive signal output by a battery protection chip of a previous level, identifying the level of the discharge drive signal according to the current flow of a discharge detection signal of a battery protection chip of a current level, and reducing a high-low level conversion window voltage of the discharge drive signal; and a charge voltage limiting detection circuit (12) used for detecting a charge drive signal output by the battery protection chip of the previous level, identifying the level of the charge drive signal according to the current flow of a charge detection signal of the battery protection chip of the current level, and reducing a high-low level conversion window voltage of the charge drive signal. The battery protection chip solves the problems of high costs, difficulty in determining the ratio of voltage division by a resistor, and large power consumption during battery protection by existing cascaded battery protection chips.

    POWER CONVERTER
    3.
    发明公开
    POWER CONVERTER 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:EP3410593A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-05

    申请号:EP17744326.4

    申请日:2017-01-26

    IPC分类号: H02M3/28 H02M7/12 H02M7/48

    摘要: This power conversion device includes: a rectification circuit; an inverter circuit having a full-bridge configuration, and having a DC capacitor, and first and second legs each of which has two switching elements connected in series to each other; a transformer; and a control circuit for controlling operation of the inverter circuit, wherein the control circuit controls an ON period for the first leg, thereby controlling increase/decrease in current flowing through a first rectification circuit from an AC input, and controls an ON period for the second leg and a phase shift amount between the ON period for the first leg and the ON period for the second leg, thereby controlling voltage of the DC capacitor to be constant. Thus, it becomes possible to achieve high-power-factor control and output power control at the same time by a single stage of full-bridge inverter circuit.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VOLTAGE REGULATOR SELF-BURN-IN TEST

    公开(公告)号:EP3410133A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-05

    申请号:EP18150285.7

    申请日:2018-01-04

    IPC分类号: G01R31/28

    摘要: The present disclosure provides a system and method enabling a self-burn-in test for a power supply device (PSD) of a server system using a multi-phase scheme. The PSD comprises a power-width modulation (PWM) controller, and a plurality of power stages. Each of the plurality of power stages comprises a driver, a high-side MOSFET, and a low-side MOSFET. In one aspect of the present disclosure, upon receiving a test mode command from a controller of the server system, the PWM controller can send a PWM signal to switch a specific power stage to the On state, and send at least another PWM signal that switches other power stage(s) of the plurality of power stages to the Tri-state. During a subsequent self-burn-in test of the specific power stage, low-side MOSFET(s) of the other power stage(s) can function as a load for the specific power stage.