A light sensor includes an integrated circuit chip and a boost DC/DC converter. The integrated circuit chip supports an array of pixels, each pixel including a SPAD. The boost DC/DC converter delivers to the SPADs a bias potential capable of placing the SPADs in Geiger mode. The boost DC/DC converter includes an inductive element, a first switch, a second switch, and a circuit for controlling on/off switching of the first switch. The inductive element and the first and second switches are arranged outside of the integrated circuit chip while the control circuit forms part of the integrated circuit chip.

A system for charging a vehicle battery using a motor driving system includes a first inverter including a plurality of first switching elements; a second inverter including a plurality of second switching elements; a plurality of transfer switches having first ends and second ends, the first ends thereof being respectively connected to the second ends of a plurality of windings, and the second ends thereof being connected to each other; and a controller configured, in a charging mode, to control opened/shorted states of the switching elements included in the first inverter and the second inverter and the plurality of transfer switches, so that a DC charging voltage applied to a portion between of the second ends of the plurality of transfer switches and a negative terminal of the battery is supplied to the battery.

This application discloses a switched-inductor power converter, a communication system, and a method. The switched-inductor power converter includes a coupling winding and a unidirectional conduction circuit, and the coupling winding and the unidirectional conduction circuit are connected in series to form a closed loop. A leakage inductor is formed after the coupling winding and a power inductor are magnetically coupled. Existence of the leakage inductor and the unidirectional conduction circuit may suppress a reverse recovery stress of a first diode, to further reduce a reverse recovery current of the first diode, and reduce a reverse recovery loss of the first diode.

An energy conversion device is provided. The device includes: a reversible pulse width modulation (PWM) rectifier (11) and a motor coil (12), where the motor coil (12) includes at least a first winding unit and a second winding unit, and the first winding unit and the second winding unit are both connected with the reversible PWM rectifier (11). The first winding unit is connected with at least one of neutral lines in the second winding unit, where at least one neutral line of at least one of the winding units is connected with a first end of a first direct current (DC) charging and discharging port (3), the reversible PWM rectifier (11) is connected with a first end of a external battery (2) and a second end of the external battery (2) respectively, and a second end of the first DC charging and discharging port (3) is connected with the second end of the external battery (2).

A cooperative control method for an energy conversion apparatus is disclosed. The cooperative control method includes: acquiring a target heating power, a target driving power, and a target charging and discharging power; acquiring a first heating power of a motor coil according to the target charging and discharging power; acquiring a second heating power of the motor coil according to the target driving power; adjusting a first quadrature axis current and a first direct axis current to a target quadrature axis current and a target direct axis current when a difference between a sum of the first heating power and the second heating power and the target heating power is not within a preset range, to cause the difference between the sum of the first heating power and the second heating power and the target heating power to be within the preset range; and acquiring a sampling current value on each phase coil and a motor rotor position, and calculating a duty cycle of each phase bridge arm in a reversible pulse width modulation (PWM) rectifier.

A multi-port USB Type-C® Power Delivery (USB-C/PD) power converter for switching clock phase shifts is described herein. The multi-port USB-C/PD power converter includes a first PD port, a second PD port, and a power controller coupled to the first and second PD ports. The power controller includes a first phased clock generator to generate a first phase-shifted clock signal by shifting a clock signal by a first phase with respect to a reference clock signal, and a second phased clock generator to generate a second phase-shifted clock signal to generate a second phased-shifted clock signal by shifting the clock signal by a second phase with respect to the reference clock signal. The first PD port and the second PD port output power in response to a first control signal based on the first phase-shifted clock signal and a second control signal based on the second phase-shifted clock signal, respectively.

Energetic firing device using a boost circuit to ensure an energetic fire circuit is charged to an All-Fire voltage even if a power source is not capable of providing necessary voltage. Boost circuit may be located between power source and energetic fire circuit and increase voltage provided by the power source when enabled. Boost circuit may be located between system logic and the energetic fire circuit and generate the All-Fire voltage when enabled. The boost circuit may generate the All-Fire voltage from an enable signal and a pulse train provided by the system logic. The boost circuit may be a switching power supply that may regulate the All-Fire voltage generated. The boost circuit may be a capacitive voltage multiplier. The boost circuit may remove power from being provided to the energetic fire circuit until enabled thus reducing system power and increasing safety.

A DC-DC conversion scheme is described that includes a buck converter including a first switch connected in series with a first inductor, the first switch and first inductor providing a switched connected between an input and an output, a second switch being connected across output, and a DC boost arrangement connected between the first switch and the first inductor, the DC boost arrangement including second and third magnetically linked inductors, the second inductor being connected in series between the first switch and the first inductor, and the third inductor being electrically connected to a point intermediate the first and second inductors, the windings of the second and third inductors being such that a change in current flowing through the second inductor induces a boost current in the third inductor supplementing the current flowing through the second inductor.

Apparatus and methods of operating an electric motor are provided, comprising energising a plurality of stator coils in sequence to rotate a rotor. Each said coil is energised with a repeating pulse sequence comprising at least a first portion and a second portion, the first and second portions repeating alternately to form the repeating pulse sequence. The first portion comprises a first pattern of pulses, each pulse in the first pattern having either a first polarity or second polarity, and at least two consecutive pulses in the first pattern having the same polarity. The second portion comprises a second pattern of pulses, the second pattern of pulses having the same pattern as said first pattern of pulses, but having inverted polarity with respect to said first pattern of pulses.

A three-level Boost circuit is provided. The three-level Boost circuit includes: an input capacitor, an inductor, a first switch, a second switch, a first freewheeling diode, a second freewheeling diode, a flying capacitor, a balance capacitor, a charging diode, a clamp diode, a discharging diode and an output series capacitor bank. The output series capacitor bank includes multiple output capacitors connected in series, and has a first node and a second node; a potential of the first node is higher than a potential of a cathode of the charging diode, and a potential difference between a cathode of the second freewheeling diode and the second node does not exceed a withstand voltage of the second freewheeling diode.