Electronic Device with Frequency Dithering
    1.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240072684A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-29

    申请号:US18341474

    申请日:2023-06-26

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: An electronic device may include an inverter. The inverter may convert direct current (DC) power to alternating current (AC) power. The inverter may use a clock signal at a given frequency to output corresponding alternating current signals at the given frequency. The inverter may receive a dithered clock signal that is frequency dithered using a modulating signal. The dithered clock signal may have at least three different frequency levels during a repeated cycle of the modulating signal. The at least three different frequency levels may include a fundamental frequency, a first frequency that is lower than the fundamental frequency, and a second frequency that is higher than the fundamental frequency. The dithered clock signal may be, during the repeated cycle of the modulating signal, at the fundamental frequency for fewer total periods than at the first frequency and for fewer total periods than at the second frequency.

    Electronic device with frequency dithering

    公开(公告)号:US11736032B1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-22

    申请号:US18164291

    申请日:2023-02-03

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: An electronic device may include an inverter. The inverter may convert direct current (DC) power to alternating current (AC) power. The inverter may use a clock signal at a given frequency to output corresponding alternating current signals at the given frequency. The inverter may receive a dithered clock signal that is frequency dithered using a modulating signal. The dithered clock signal may have at least three different frequency levels during a repeated cycle of the modulating signal. The at least three different frequency levels may include a fundamental frequency, a first frequency that is lower than the fundamental frequency, and a second frequency that is higher than the fundamental frequency. The dithered clock signal may be, during the repeated cycle of the modulating signal, at the fundamental frequency for fewer total periods than at the first frequency and for fewer total periods than at the second frequency.

    Electronic device with frequency dithering

    公开(公告)号:US12009760B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-11

    申请号:US18341474

    申请日:2023-06-26

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: An electronic device may include an inverter. The inverter may convert direct current (DC) power to alternating current (AC) power. The inverter may use a clock signal at a given frequency to output corresponding alternating current signals at the given frequency. The inverter may receive a dithered clock signal that is frequency dithered using a modulating signal. The dithered clock signal may have at least three different frequency levels during a repeated cycle of the modulating signal. The at least three different frequency levels may include a fundamental frequency, a first frequency that is lower than the fundamental frequency, and a second frequency that is higher than the fundamental frequency. The dithered clock signal may be, during the repeated cycle of the modulating signal, at the fundamental frequency for fewer total periods than at the first frequency and for fewer total periods than at the second frequency.

    MULTI-PHASE POWER CONVERTER WITH CURRENT MATCHING

    公开(公告)号:US20230353063A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-02

    申请号:US18140896

    申请日:2023-04-28

    IPC分类号: H02M1/14 H02M7/5387 H02M7/48

    摘要: A multi-phase power converter with current matching is provided. The apparatus may include a control circuit to control a first phase of a power converter having a plurality of phases, and a phase matching circuit. The phase matching circuit may remove a DC component from an output ripple voltage of the converter, detect when respective ones of the plurality of phases begins generating its respective phase current and output a phase detector signal, extract a signal proportional to the first phase current and a signal proportional to either the remaining or total phase currents, output first and second voltages respectively proportional to the average of the first phase current and the remaining or total phase current, and output a corrective signal based on the difference between the first and second voltage. The control circuit may control the first phase based on the corrective signal.

    MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS
    7.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240305228A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-12

    申请号:US18437764

    申请日:2024-02-09

    摘要: A motor control apparatus includes: a smoothing capacitor; an inverter circuit; a torque limiter; and a field-weakening control device. The smoothing capacitor smooths the direct current power. The inverter circuit converts the smoothed direct current power to alternating current power. The torque limiter limits motor torque based on a torque limit value calculated from a direct current voltage applied to the smoothing capacitor, limiting the motor torque in a power running direction to a first torque value when the direct current voltage drops to a first threshold. The field-weakening control device weakens a field and raises an induced motor voltage and the direct current voltage when the power running direction motor torque is limited to the first value. The torque limiter limits the power running direction motor torque to a second value greater than the first value when the direct current voltage rises from the first to a second threshold.

    POWER CONVERSION DEVICE
    8.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230387827A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-30

    申请号:US18306569

    申请日:2023-04-25

    IPC分类号: H02M7/5395 H02M7/48 H02M1/00

    摘要: A setting unit sets a duty ratio of a PWM signal based on a target voltage value, and outputs the duty ratio to a voltage conversion circuit. An estimated value calculation unit cyclically calculates an estimated duty ratio value based on the detected input voltage value and the detected output voltage value. An abnormality detection unit cyclically calculates, as a difference value, a difference between an updated estimated value and a comparison reference value, and detects abnormality of a voltage detection unit based on a change in calculated difference value. The updated estimated value is a newly calculated estimated duty ratio value. The comparison reference value is a value based on the estimated duty ratio value calculated in a cycle prior to a cycle in which the updated estimated value is calculated.

    POWER CONTROL APPARATUS
    9.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230223863A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-13

    申请号:US18180349

    申请日:2023-03-08

    申请人: Denso Corporation

    IPC分类号: H02M7/48 H02M7/538 H02M1/084

    摘要: A power control apparatus, comprising: a first wiring and a second wiring connected to a power source; a first capacitor connected to the first wiring and the second wiring; an electrical component including a plurality of switches connected in parallel with the first capacitor through the first wiring and the second wiring; and a second capacitor which is connected to one of the first wiring and the second wiring and is connected to a reference potential portion having a constant potential, wherein an impedance of a first conducting path between another side connection point, which is connected to the first capacitor, of the other one of the first wiring and the second wiring and the power supply not through the first capacitor, is higher than an impedance of a second conducting path between the another side connection point and the second capacitor through the first capacitor.