An apparatus includes a buck converter portion of a buck-boost converter configured to operate under a constant on-time control scheme, wherein an on-time of a high-side switch of the buck converter portion is determined by a buck on-time timer, and a boost converter portion of the buck-boost converter configured to operate under a constant off-time control scheme, wherein an off-time of a low-side switch of the boost converter portion is determined by a boost off-time timer.

An AC-DC converter includes three phase terminals, first and second DC terminals, a first converter stage for converting between the AC signal and a first signal at first and second intermediate nodes, a second converter stage to convert between a second signal at third and fourth intermediate nodes and the DC signal at the first and second DC terminals. The second converter stage has a first active switch. A link connects the first and third intermediate nodes and the second and fourth intermediate nodes. A current injection circuit has second active switches. In a first mode, the first active switch and the second active switches are operated through PWM. In a second mode, the third and fourth intermediate nodes are continuously connected to the first and second DC terminals such that the second converter stage is inoperative and the second active switches are operated through PWM.

A three-phase AC to DC converter includes a first converter stage for converting between three phase voltages at three phase terminals and a first signal at a first intermediate node and a second intermediate node. A phase selector is configured to selectively connect the three phase terminals to a third intermediate node. The converter includes a second converter stage, a DC link connecting the first and second converter stages, and a galvanically isolated DC/DC converter stage having a first side connected to output nodes of the second converter stage and a first common node. A second side of the DC/DC converter stage is galvanically isolated from the first side. The first common node is connected to the third intermediate node. The difference of a first current applied to the DC/DC converter at output nodes of the second converter stage is provided at the third intermediate node.

A first node of converter circuit receives an input, provides an output at a second node, and has a third node coupled by an inductance to ground. A first switch has a current path between the first and third nodes and a second switch has a current path between the third and second nodes. The converter circuit operates in a first state (with the first switch conductive and the second switch non-conductive) and a second state (with the first switch non-conductive and the second switch conductive). Current flowing through the first switch is sensed during the first state to produce a sensing signal indicative of inductance current. The sensing signal is averaged to produce an averaged sensing signal indicative of an average value of the current. The averaged sensing signal is then weighted by a time during which the second switch is conductive to produce a weighted signal.

A zero-voltage switching (ZVS) buck-boost converter to reduce or even minimize switching power loss and improve EMI performance is described herein. The buck-boost converter may include an auxiliary path to generate an auxiliary current to charge and discharge respective nodes in the converter during select switching times. The converter may operate in buck-boost mode, buck mode, or boost mode. Moreover, the auxiliary path may include components, such as a pair of power switches and an inductor, arranged in a symmetrical fashion so that the converter may achieve ZVS in bidirectional operation as well.

A rechargeable battery comprises a casing, a power receiving module, a charge management module, a storage capacitor, a positive electrode, and a negative electrode. The power receiving module is for outputting an input power. The charge management module is disposed in the casing and electrically connected to the power receiving module to receive the input power and convert the input power to a charge power. The storage capacitor, which is a supercapacitor or a lithium-ion capacitor, is disposed in the casing and electrically connected to the charge management module, and the charge power charges the storage capacitor. The positive electrode and the negative electrode are disposed at the casing and partly exposed outside the casing. The positive electrode and the negative electrode are electrically connected to the storage capacitor to supply an output power.

A switch control circuit and a switch control method are provided. The switch control circuit includes a load, an inductor, a control switch, and a sensing resistance connected in series to an input power; an integrator that integrates a sensing voltage and a load current setting voltage to generate an integrated signal; a comparator that compares the integrated signal and a bias voltage; a switch driver that controls the control switch based on an output of the comparator and an output of an off time controller; and a gate sensor that outputs, to the integrator, a gate sensing signal that senses a time when an input of a gate terminal of the control switch becomes a low level. An integration operation is started from a position in which the integrated signal is located lower than the bias voltage, when an input of the gate terminal becomes a high level.

Disclosed in various embodiments of the present invention are an electronic device for adjusting a voltage and an operating method therefor. The electronic device comprises: at least one first converter for supporting a plurality of operating modes for changing voltage; a second converter supporting the plurality of operating modes and connected with the at least one first converter in series; and at least one processor, wherein the processor can be configured to determine an intermediate voltage between the at least one first converter and the second converter on the basis of an input voltage of the at least one first converter and an output voltage of the second converter, and control an operating mode of each of the at least one first converter and the second converter on the basis of the determined intermediate voltage. Other embodiments are also possible.

The present disclosure provides a circuit for balancing voltages of battery packs to be connected in parallel, comprising: IN-side switches and OUT-side switches; a DC-DC converter with an IN terminal connected to the IN-side switches and an OUT terminal connected to the OUT-side switches; and a controller to operate an IN-side switch to connect a V.sub.max battery pack to the IN terminal, operate an OUT-side switch to connect a V.sub.min battery pack to the OUT terminal, and activate the DC-DC converter to transfer energy from the V.sub.min battery pack to the V.sub.min battery pack. The controller responds to an IN terminal voltage being sufficiently close to a voltage of a first battery pack by operating an IN-side switch to connect the first pack to the IN terminal, and responds to an OUT terminal voltage being sufficiently close to a voltage of a second battery pack by operating an OUT-side switch to connect the second battery pack to the OUT terminal.

According to an embodiment disclosed in the specification, an electronic device comprises a battery disposed inside the electronic device; a printed circuit board (PCB) disposed inside the electronic device; at least one electronic component disposed on the PCB; and a first buck converter having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is routed to the battery; and a second buck converter having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is selectively electrically connected to the second end of the first buck converter, and the second end is routed to the at least one electronic component, and wherein the first buck converter and the second buck converter are configured to boost a voltage provided from the battery through an electrical path formed from the battery by the first end of the first buck converter, and the second end of the first buck converter, the first end of the second buck converter and the second end of the second buck converter to the at least one electronic component.