This application describes a laser driver that can include a voltage source, an inductor, at least one capacitor, a diode laser, and an electronic switch. The switch may be connected to ground and may be configured to alternate between an on state and an off state. In a first on state, current may flow through the switch to the inductor and through the inductor to store energy in the inductor. In a first off state, the inductor may release the stored energy and allow current to flow to the at least one capacitor to charge the at least one capacitor. In a second on state, the at least one capacitor may discharge and allow current to flow through the diode laser to cause the diode laser to emit light energy.

A charging device includes a passive auxiliary circuit and a rectifier which is connected downstream of the auxiliary circuit. The passive auxiliary circuit includes input nodes and output nodes. Between the input node and the output nodes, two impedances are connected. Here, an imaginary component of the first impedance has a positive non-zero value and an imaginary component of the second impedance a negative non-zero value or vice versa.

The subject invention reveals new methods and structures for achieving single stage power conversion with both regulated input current and regulated output voltage processing a minimum of load power and thereby achieving higher efficiency than other singles stage power converters with both regulated input current and regulated output voltage and two stage power factor corrected power converters. The subject invention reveals power factor corrected converters that improve the efficiency of the single stage power factor corrected converters on which they are based by adding an auxiliary converter that processes a small fraction of the total load power.

A three-phase regenerative drive configured for operation from a single phase alternating current (AC) power source, the three-phase regenerative drive including a three-phase converter having inputs for connection to a single-phase AC source, the three-phase converter having three phase legs, a three-phase inverter for connection to a motor, the three phase inverter configured to provide three phase command signals to the motor, and a DC bus connected between the three-phase converter and the three-phase inverter. A first phase leg of the three-phase converter and a second phase leg of the three-phase converter are employed to direct current from the single-phase AC source to the DC Bus and a third phase leg of the three phase legs of the three-phase converter returns current to a return of the AC source.

A controller for an AC-DC converter including a rectifier circuit that converts AC input voltage into DC output voltage uses control logic to control the rectifier circuit according to two or more operating modes. Each operating mode determines a gain of the rectifier circuit. The controller selects an operating mode from the two or more operating modes based on at least one of an AC input voltage value and a required DC output voltage value. The AC-DC converter provides a wide range of DC output voltage with power factor correction. The controller may be used with AC-DC converter topologies such as boost converter, isolated boost converter, PWM converter, LLC resonant converter, and LCC resonant converter.

An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises: a receiving circuit for outputting an AC power received wirelessly; and a rectifier circuit for rectifying the AC power being output from the power receiving circuit. The rectifier circuit comprises a forward rectifier circuit and a reverse rectifier circuit. A first terminal of the forward rectifier circuit is connected to the receiving circuit and the reverse rectifier circuit, a second terminal of the forward rectifier circuit is connected to an output terminal, and the forward rectifier circuit comprises first transistors for rectifying the AC power during a first period. A first terminal of the reverse rectifier circuit is connected to the receiving circuit and the forward rectifier circuit, a second terminal of the reverse rectifier circuit is connected to a ground, and the reverse rectifier circuit can comprise second transistors for preventing the AC power from being transmitted to the forward rectifier circuit during a second period.

An the LED driving circuit, for driving an the LED load, includes: a bridge rectifier for rectifying an AC input voltage into a DC voltage; a serial capacitor voltage divider coupled to the bridge rectifier, including a plurality of serial capacitors; a half-bridge switch, coupled to the serial capacitor voltage divider; and a controller coupled to the half-bridge switch, for determining whether the DC voltage is higher than a threshold value and for controlling the half-bridge switch in a full-voltage mode or a half-voltage mode. In the full-voltage mode, the plurality of serial capacitors of the serial capacitor voltage divider synchronously supply power to the LED load. In the half-voltage mode, the plurality of serial capacitors of the serial capacitor voltage divider alternatively supply power to the LED load.

A convenient electronic circuit in which a switch is able to be switched through electric power obtained using weak radio waves is provided. An electronic circuit includes a switch which is connected between a power supply configured to output direct current (DC) electric power and a load driven through DC electric power supplied from the power supply and which switches a connection state between the power supply and the load from a non-conduction state to a conduction state; a power conversion circuit which includes a power input terminal to which electric power obtained through radio waves received by an antenna is input and a DC power output terminal configured to output DC electric power and which converts electric power input to the power input terminal into DC electric power and outputs the converted DC electric power from the DC power output terminal; and a control circuit configured to control a connection state of the switch to be in a conduction state when the power conversion circuit outputs DC electric power. The power conversion circuit includes at least a first capacitor, a first diode, a second capacitor, and a second diode.

Described herein is a wireless charging system including switched capacitor (SC) rectifiers with output regulation. The load for the receiver on mobile devices using wireless charging is a battery. Regulation is needed for battery charging applications, e.g. constant voltage charging, constant current charging, and pulsed charging. For this purpose, the wireless power transfer (WPT) receiver can possess some “intelligence” to monitor the output voltage/current, adjust the behavior of the electronic circuitries and achieve a closed-loop control. Because a multilevel switched-capacitor (MSC) rectifier has output control ability, this can allow the MSC rectifier to directly charge the battery without an additional DC/DC charger on-board the device.

A secondary side controller of a flyback AC-DC converter includes an integrated circuit, which includes: an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) coupled to a voltage bus (VBUS), the ADC to output a digital value corresponding to a voltage level of the VBUS; first logic configured to generate a reference voltage based on the digital value; second logic configured to generate a VBUS gain value based on output power of a flyback transformer of the flyback AC-DC converter; an integrator to accumulate current corresponding to a sensed voltage at a drain of a synchronous rectifier (SR) of a secondary side of the flyback transformer, the accumulated current to be modified according to the VBUS gain value, wherein the integrator outputs an updated sensed voltage; and a comparator to output a detection signal, indicative of a negative sense voltage, in response to the updated sensed voltage matching the reference voltage.