An apparatus includes a first inverter circuit and a second inverter circuit. The first invertor circuit is configured to couple an alternator and a load device to deliver a driving signal from the alternator to the load device. The second invertor circuit is configured to couple the alternator to the load device to deliver a driving signal from the alternator to the load device and configured to couple a battery to the alternator to deliver a charging signal from the alternator the battery.

Power to an electrical device is controlled using a phase control that changes a cutoff phase of an alternating current (AC) electrical signal delivered to the electrical device. The power delivered to the electrical device is increased to an operational level using the phase control. A level of the power delivered to the electrical device is maintained at the operational level using an integral half cycle control that selectively removes a plurality of half cycles from the AC electrical signal delivered to the electrical device such that a plurality of remaining half cycles in the AC electrical signal delivered to the electrical device have a frequency outside a range of sub-harmonic frequencies.

A matrix power conversion device including a plurality of three-phase switching modules and a controller is provided. Each three-phase switching module includes a plurality of bidirectional switches connected to the input phase voltages of the three-phase input power respectively and outputs a corresponding output phase voltage of the three-phase output power. The controller determines a maximum voltage, an intermediate voltage and a minimum voltage among all the input phase voltages to acquire a waveform of a control carrier wave in a switching cycle. The controller acquires output expected values corresponding to all output phase voltages and compares them with the waveform of the control carrier wave for acquiring a turning-on time of each of the plurality of bidirectional switches. Accordingly, the controller controls the matrix power conversion device to switch the three-phase input power so as to change the three-phase output power for driving the motor.

An intelligent current control apparatus provides a current control for a power supply branch and a load. The intelligent current control apparatus includes at least one power conversion unit and a control unit. The control unit controls a total phase current, which is composed of a single-phase current and a household phase current in the same phase, to be less than or equal to a rated phase current of the power supply branch.

An apparatus includes a first inverter circuit and a second inverter circuit. The first invertor circuit is configured to couple an alternator and a load device to deliver a driving signal from the alternator to the load device. The second invertor circuit is configured to couple the alternator to the load device to deliver a driving signal from the alternator to the load device and configured to couple a battery to the alternator to deliver a charging signal from the alternator the battery.

Controlling power delivered to a heating device occurs using a phase control, wherein the phase control includes changing a cut-off phase of an alternating current electrical signal delivered to the heating device. The power delivered to the heating device is increased from zero to an operational level using the phase control. The level of the power delivered to the heating device is maintained at the operational level using both the phase control and an integral half cycle control. The integral half cycle includes selectively removing a plurality of half cycles from the alternating current electrical signal delivered to the heating device.

An electrical power distribution network is disclosed, the network can include: a plurality of electrical power control apparatuses, each of the electrical power control apparatuses including: one or more signal conversion components receiving electrical power in the form of a corresponding first signal having a corresponding first fundamental frequency and a corresponding first characteristic voltage, and generating a corresponding second signal having a corresponding second fundamental frequency and a corresponding second characteristic voltage; and a controller that controls operation of the signal conversion components to determine an output voltage and an output frequency of an output signal of the electrical power control apparatus; electrical power generation components acting as sources of electrical power to at least some of the electrical power control apparatuses; and electrical power consumption components acting as sinks of electrical power from at least some of the electrical power control apparatuses.

An electrical power distribution network is disclosed, the network can include: a plurality of electrical power control apparatuses, each of the electrical power control apparatuses including: one or more signal conversion components receiving electrical power in the form of a corresponding first signal having a corresponding first fundamental frequency and a corresponding first characteristic voltage, and generating a corresponding second signal having a corresponding second fundamental frequency and a corresponding second characteristic voltage; and a controller that controls operation of the signal conversion components to determine an output voltage and an output frequency of an output signal of the electrical power control apparatus; electrical power generation components acting as sources of electrical power to at least some of the electrical power control apparatuses; and electrical power consumption components acting as sinks of electrical power from at least some of the electrical power control apparatuses.

A bussing connector is provided and includes bus bar connections, output elements and dielectric material. The bus bar connections each include an output section and an input section. The input sections cooperatively form a multiphase alternating current (AC) input. The output elements are arranged along and in electrical communication with the output sections of each of the bus bar connections. The dielectric material is configured to partially surround and partially electrically insulate the input and output sections and the output elements of each of the bus bar connections. The dielectric material is further configured to expose the multiphase AC input and portions of each of the outlet elements of each of the bus bar connections.

A multi-winding single-stage multi-input boost type high-frequency link's inverter with simultaneous/time-sharing power supplies, having the circuit structure formed by connecting a plurality of mutually isolated high-frequency inverter circuits having an input filter and an energy storage inductor, a common output cycloconverter and filter circuit by a multi-input single-output high-frequency transformer. Each input end of the multi-input single-output high-frequency transformer is connected in one-to-one correspondence to the output end of each high-frequency inverter circuit. The output end of the multi-input single-output high-frequency transformer is connected to the input end of the output cycloconverter and filter circuit. The inverter has the following characteristics: multiple input sources are connected to a common ground or a non-common ground. The multiple input sources supply power to load in a simultaneous/time-sharing manner. The output and input high-frequency isolation is performed. The output cycloconverter and filter circuit is shared.