A direct-current voltage conversion circuit having on/off control with a dead-time period performed alternately on a first switch and a second switch included in a direct-current voltage conversion circuit. When alternating current flows in a series circuit part including two transformers magnetically independent, current flows in an output circuit including a secondary side of one transformer, and energy is accumulated in the other transformer. The permeabilities of the magnetic cores in the first and second transformers is between 15 and 120.

The invention relates to a device (200) for measuring a current through a choke (130) of a voltage converter (100) comprising an integrator circuit (140), an amplifier circuit and an NTC resistor (160). The amplifier circuit comprises an inverting and a non-inverting amplifier input connection (152, 154) and an amplifier output connection (156). The non-inverting amplifier input connection (154) is supplied with an amplifier input signal according to an integrator output signal. A voltage signal characterising the current through the choke (130) is applied at the amplifier output connection (156) of the amplifier circuit. The NTC resistor (160) is arranged in the feedback path of the amplifier circuit between the inverting amplifier input connection (152) and the amplifier output connection (156).

The invention relates to the galvanically isolated transmission of electrical power between three voltage systems. For this purpose, a transformer is provided which comprises a total of five windings. The transmission between the individual voltage systems can be controlled by targeted manner activation of the individual windings.

A wide input voltage range power converter circuit in a one-stage-two-switch configuration has a power input terminal, a switch node connected to the power input terminal, a transformer, two electronic switches, a pulse width modulation (PWM) circuit, and an output circuit. An input side of the transformer has a first winding and a second winding that are connected to the switch node. An output side of the transformer has an output winding. A turns ratio between the first winding and the output winding is different from a turns ratio between the second winding and the output winding. The two electronic switches are respectively connected to the first winding and the second winding in series. The PWM circuit is connected to the power input terminal and control terminals of the two electronic switches. The output circuit is connected to the output winding.

A control circuit for a resonant circuit includes a resonant current detecting circuit, a current adjustment circuit and an on-time control circuit. The resonant current detecting circuit is configured to receive a resonant current, a first reference and a second reference, and to provide a detected current signal based on the resonant current, the first reference and the second reference. The current adjustment circuit is configured to receive the detected current signal and a charging reference, and to provide an on-time control signal based on the detected current signal and the charging reference. The on-time control circuit is configured to receive the on-time control signal and an on-time initial value, and to provide an on-time signal to control a switch of the resonant circuit based on the on-time control signal and the on-time initial value.

An inductive power outlet is disclosed. The inductive power outlet has a primary inductor, for wirelessly powering an inductive power receiver. The inductive power outlet has a secondary inductor. The primary inductor and the secondary inductor form a resonant frequency. The inductive power outlet comprises a driver generating an oscillating voltage to the primary coil at a frequency higher than the resonant frequency. The inductive power outlet comprises a signal detector. The signal detector comprises a peak detector configured to detect voltage peaks across the primary inductor or current peaks of a current supplied to the primary inductor. The signal detector comprises a processor configured to determine a frequency of either the voltage peaks or the current peaks.

In order to balance the thermal stress of the switches (S1-S4) of the two legs of an inverter full bridge (4), the driving signals are generated using an up-down counter having a modulation period T.sub.mod of twice the period T of the input voltage (Vin). The up-down counter has a first compare value (41) of D/4 and a second compare value (42) of (2+D)/4, where D is the duty cycle and where the second half bridge is phase shifted by the period T.

The present disclosure discloses a current detecting circuit of a power converter, which includes a transformer including: a magnetic core, a primary winding and a secondary winding, the primary winding and the secondary winding being coupled through the magnetic core, and a combination of the primary winding, the secondary winding and the magnetic core being used to transmit a main power of the power converter, the current detecting circuit includes: an auxiliary winding coupled to the secondary winding, the auxiliary winding and the secondary winding having the same number of turns and their dotted terminals being connected; and an impeder, one end thereof being coupled to the auxiliary winding to form a series branch, which is coupled in parallel to the secondary winding, and a terminal voltage of the impeder after being filtered being proportional to a magnitude of an output current of the power converter.

A control unit is provided. The control unit is configured to provide a control signal for controlling a power unit. The power unit includes a first positive voltage terminal, a second positive voltage terminal, a first negative voltage terminal, a second negative voltage terminal, and a switching element. The first negative voltage terminal and the second positive voltage terminal are coupled to each other in a short circuit manner. One terminal of the switching element is electrically connected to the first negative voltage terminal. The control unit is configured to: receive a pulse width modulation signal; receive a first power supply signal; receive a second positive voltage terminal signal; output a second power supply signal; and output the control signal for controlling the switching element to be turned on or turned off.

A power conversion device includes a first converter configured to convert at least first battery power output by a first battery into first output power of a first voltage waveform based on an output waveform profile that has been input or set and output the first output power and a first generator configured to generate and output second output power based on the first battery power. Third output power of an alternating current (AC) control waveform generated by adding the first output power to the second output power is supplied to a load.