According to one aspect of the present disclosed subject matter, a receiver inductively powered by a transmitter for powering a load, the receiver comprising: a resonance circuit capable of tuning its resonance frequency for coupling with the transmitter and generate AC voltage; a power supply section configured to rectify the AC voltage and adjust a DC current and a DC voltage to the load; and a control and communication section designed to set parameters for the receiver and communicate operation points (OP) to the transmitter, wherein the parameters and the OP derived from determining a minimal power loss of the receiver.

A DC-DC power converter employs a full bridge series resonant converter topology with a resonant tank and two transformers, one before and one after the resonant tank, to obtain a high voltage (e.g., approximately 300V, approximately 1500V or greater) output from a relatively low voltage (e.g., approximately 9V-16V) input, for instance an input from one or more battery cells. DC-DC power converter is operable to output high voltage (e.g., around 300V, 1500V or higher) short duration pulses (e.g., tens of nanoseconds or less). A burst mode control technique provides as good regulation characteristics at light loads. Instead of turning OFF the active switches during an OFF period, the switches are operated at a different frequency (e.g., higher frequency) during the OFF period than a frequency at which the switches are turned ON during the ON period. Auxiliary loads can also be supplied.

Controllers and methods for controlling a resonant power converter output voltage include operating the power converter according to a control period comprising an on cycle operation mode for a duration T_on that produces a first voltage Vo1 and an off cycle operation mode for a duration T_off that produces a second voltage Vo2. Vo1 is produced using a first switching frequency for a first selected number of switching cycles corresponding to the on time T_on. The converter output voltage or the converter input and output voltages may be sensed and used to determine the switching frequency during the on cycle operation mode and the duration of the off cycle operation mode. The final output voltage of the power converter is regulated to a selected value based on a ration of (T_on):(T_on+T_off). The controllers and methods may be used with power converters in power delivery devices to accept wide input voltage ranges compatible with devices such as cell phones, tablet computers, and notebook computers.

An electronic device and a control method for the electronic device are provided, and relate to the field of wireless charging technologies, to improve compatibility of a power receiving terminal device in wireless charging with a power transmitting terminal device by improving ASK communication quality. The electronic device includes a device circuit (50), a voltage conversion circuit (203), a rectifier circuit (202), a resonant circuit (201), and a modulation circuit (204). The resonant circuit (201) includes a resonant inductor (L2) and a resonant capacitor control circuit (ci1) connected in series to the resonant inductor (L2). A first end of the resonant inductor (L2) is coupled to the rectifier circuit (202), a second end of the resonant inductor (L2) is coupled to a first end of the resonant capacitor control circuit (ci1), and a second end of the resonant capacitor control circuit (ci1) is coupled to the rectifier circuit (202).

A wireless power transfer system comprises a power transmission device and a power reception device. The power reception device includes a power reception coil that wirelessly magnetically couples with a power transmission coil included in the power transmission device. The power transmission device includes a switching circuit in which switch elements perform switching operations, an input voltage adjustment circuit that is electrically connected to the switching circuit and adjusts an input voltage, and an MPU. The MPU is configured to recognize a power requirement presented by the power reception device, control the input voltage adjustment circuit and control intermittent oscillation of the switching circuit, and adjust the input voltage to prevent an oscillation stop period of the intermittent oscillation from exceeding a predetermined stop period.

Embodiments relate to a system comprising: a first module. The first module comprises a power receiving module configured to receive an input power from an energy source. The system further comprises a second module. The second module comprises a power conversion module configured to convert the input power to an output power. The system further comprises a third module. The third module comprises a control module for configuring the first module or the second module to perform a charging operation or a discharging operation. The first module, the second module and the third module are functionally integrated in the system to perform multiple modes of the charging operation or the discharging operation. The third module controls an impedance of the input power and the output power in the second module.

An interleaved LLC converter arrangement includes two or more LLC converters for transferring power from an input side to an output side, wherein the two or more LLC converters include a first LLC converter and a second LLC converter connected in parallel on the input side and on the output side and wherein each LLC converter includes a bridge inverter at the input side. For balancing the power transfer among the LLC converters if for example the second LLC converter transfers more power from the input side to the output side than the first LLC converter, each leg of the bridge of the bridge inverter of the first LLC converter is operated with a duty cycle of 0.5 and at least one leg of the bridge of the bridge inverter of the second LLC converter is operated with a duty cycle different from 0.5.

A power transmission device includes a transmission coil that supplies power to a power reception device, a power supply circuit that converts DC power supplied from a DC power source via a plurality of switching elements connected in a full bridge shape or a half bridge shape between DC power sources and the transmission coil into AC power and supplies the AC power to the transmission coil, a phase adjustment circuit having an LC series circuit connected in parallel with the transmission coil and a switching element connected in series with the LC series circuit, and a control circuit that controls switching on and off of the switching element of the phase adjustment circuit in accordance with a measured value of an amount of current when any of the plurality of switching elements of the power supply circuit is turned off by a current detection circuit.

A bidirectional DC-DC converter with three or more ports is described along with a method of operation thereof. The converter utilizes a common transformer for all ports and allows for power transfer from any port to any or all of the remaining ports. The converter may utilize a controller which implements variable-frequency control, delay-time control, and/or phase-delay control to achieve power transfer as desired between the converter ports. In some cases, power transfer between ports can operate similar to a series-resonant converter or a dual active bridge converter.

A power receiver includes: a secondary-side resonant coil including a resonant coil part to receive electric power from a primary-side resonant coil through magnetic field resonance; a capacitor inserted in series in the resonant coil part; a series circuit of a first switch and a second switch; a first rectifier having a first rectification direction; a second rectifier having a second rectification direction; a detector to detect a voltage waveform or a current waveform of the power; and a controller to adjust, in a state of adjusting a phase difference between the waveform and a driving signal that includes a first signal for switching on/off the first switch and a second signal for switching on/off the second switch to be a predetermined phase difference, a length of a period, during which the switches are both on, to adjust an amount of the power received by the secondary-side resonant coil.