In one embodiment, a method of operating a power electronic converter device for an electrical power converter system is provided. The power electronic converter device includes a converter circuit, a first converter, and a second converter. The first converter and the second converter are switch with a switching pattern such that the first converter and the second converter generate voltages with stepwise voltages changes and an output voltage of the power electronic converter device results frum a superposition of the voltages of the first converter and the second converter. The switching pattern includes switching instants for the second converter such that the voltage of the second converter leaves the fundamental voltage component of the voltage of the first converter unchanged, such that the second converter does not generate a fundamental component of the output voltage.

A method is provided for limiting double-frequency internal power distortion in a power system. The method includes receiving an input voltage from a voltage source at a power converter from which an output power is provided to an electrical load, measuring the output power having a waveform with a steady-state component and a double-frequency transient component, executing computer-readable program code, via processing circuitry, to determine a compensating waveform equal in amplitude to the double-frequency transient component, and that is anti-phase to the double-frequency transient component, and causing the power converter to generate the compensating waveform such that the waveform and the compensating waveform superpose, and the double-frequency transient component of the waveform and the compensating waveform destructively interfere, leaving the steady-state component that is delivered to the electrical load.

A multiple output universal serial bus travel adaptor includes: at least one AC-DC converter for converting an AC power to a first DC power; at least one DC-DC converter for providing a second DC power according to the first DC power; plural switches which are coupled to the AC-DC converter and/or the DC-DC converter to provide the first DC power or the second DC power to corresponding connectors according to operation signals; and a protocol controller configured to generate the operation signals according to at least one of the following parameters: a) the types of the connectors; b) whether there is a mobile device connected with the connectors; c) a first command from the mobile device; d) the power consumed by the mobile devices; e) the currents flowing through the connectors; and f) the voltages at the connectors.

Described herein is a method of operating a power electronic converter device for an electrical power conversion system. The power electronic converter device includes a converter circuit including an input side, an output side, a first converter, and at least one second converter. The second converter includes at least one floating cell with a DC intermediate circuit and semiconductor devices. The method includes: switching the semiconductor devices of the floating cell at switching instants determined with optimized pulse patterns or carrier-based pulse width modulation; determining a fundamental voltage component for the floating cell; and generating the fundamental voltage component in the actual voltage of the floating cell by modifying the switching instants, such that a voltage V.sub.C AF of the DC intermediate circuit is lying in a given reference voltage range for balancing the DC intermediate circuit of the floating cell.

The present disclosure provides a high-performance power supply of a wide output voltage range and a control method thereof. The high-performance power supply of a wide output voltage range includes M rectification branches and a serial to parallel conversion module. The technical solution of the present disclosure solves the problem in the prior art that it is still difficult to obtain a good performance within a full output voltage range under a wide output voltage requirement.

A dual-input power conversion system includes a first primary side power network coupled between a first ac power source and a first primary winding of a transformer, a second primary side power network coupled between a second ac power source and a second primary winding the transformer, a secondary side power network coupled to a secondary side of the transformer, and a power converter coupled between the secondary side power network and a load.

This application discloses a photovoltaic system. The photovoltaic system includes a DC/DC converter, a resonant switched capacitor converter, an inverter, and a controller. An input terminal of the DC/DC converter is connected to a photovoltaic array. A first input terminal of the resonant switched capacitor converter is connected to a positive output terminal of the DC/DC converter, and a second input terminal of the resonant switched capacitor converter is connected to a negative output terminal of the DC/DC converter. A first output terminal of the resonant switched capacitor converter is connected to a neutral wire of the inverter, a second output terminal of the resonant switched capacitor converter is connected to a negative bus of the inverter, and the resonant switched capacitor converter includes at least the following two resonant switched capacitor circuits RSCCs connected in parallel: a first RSCC and a second RSCC.

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 power conversion device includes a filter circuit unit between a power conversion unit and a smoothing capacitor for smoothing a pulsating flow accompanying power conversion in the power conversion unit to absorb at least a part of a high-frequency component of the pulsating flow.

A motor driving apparatus that drives a motor including a plurality of windings respectively corresponding to a plurality of phases, may include a first inverter including a plurality of first switching elements, and connected to a first end of each of the windings; a second inverter including a plurality of second switching elements, and connected to a second end of each of the windings; and a controller including a current controller to produce, based on a predetermined current command of the motor, a voltage command for determining a switching duty of the first switching elements and the second switching elements, wherein the current controller is configured to produce a zero-phase component voltage command among the voltage commands by applying 3.sup.rd harmonic feedforward compensation.