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.

Techniques for converting power received from a power grid at a first voltage and outputting a signal at a second voltage are discussed herein. A power converter with a transformer that has a 22.5 degrees phase shift between current output by corresponding pairs of secondary windings can be utilized to convert power of a first level to power of a second level. The transformer can output power from 30 secondary windings. The power converter can output power with a total harmonic distortion of 5% and an efficiency of 96% or higher. Further, power can be output by a transmission coil and received by a receive coil in a device, such as a vehicle, to wirelessly charge the vehicle.

Disclosed herein is a charger for charging electric vehicles. In one embodiment, the charger includes M AC/DC converters, a DC bus, N DC/DC converters, and D energy exchange ports. The M AC/DC converters are configured to be coupled to a power source at an input side of the M AC/DC converters. The DC bus is connected to an output side of each of the M AC/DC converters. The N DC/DC converters are coupled to the DC bus at an input side of the N DC/DC converters. The D energy exchange ports are coupled to an output side of one or more of the N DC/DC converters at an input side of the D energy exchange ports, and each of the D energy exchange ports is configured to be coupled to an electric vehicle, where N>M, and where an energy storage is coupled to the DC bus.

A rectifier circuit rectifies a current that flows through a reception coil. A smoothing capacitor is connected to the output of the rectifier circuit. A judgment unit generates a notification signal that corresponds to a comparison result obtained by comparing the voltage V.sub.RECT across the smoothing capacitor with a predetermined threshold voltage at a judgment timing. The judgment timing is positioned after the start of reception of a signal from a power supply apparatus.

In various embodiments, a transformer provides a voltage. A regulating circuit coupled to the transformer regulates the voltage to provide either a first voltage or a second voltage that is independent of the first voltage.

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 heating system for semi-finished metal products is provided. The heating system has a heating group having a positive contact and a negative contact, suitable for being connected to a semi-finished metal product to determine a current flow in the semi-finished metal product during a heating step. A power supply group, connectable to a power supply grid, has at least a first thyristor power controller, a second thyristor power controller and a third thyristor power controller. An input transformer has a primary input transformer side connectable to the power supply grid and a secondary input transformer side connected to the first, second, and third thyristor power controllers. An adaptation apparatus has an adaptation transformer connected in cascade to the first, second, and third thyristor power controllers and an AC-DC converter for converting alternating current from the adaptation transformer into direct current to be supplied between the positive and negative contacts.

A charging system includes a multi-pulse transformer, n AC-DC conversion units, n power supply terminals and a charging scheduling apparatus. A plurality of secondary windings of the multi-pulse transformer form n winding pairs. The n AC-DC conversion units are coupled to the n winding pairs in a one-to-one correspondence. The n power supply terminals are coupled to the n AC-DC conversion units in a one-to-one correspondence. The charging scheduling apparatus are configured to detect the number of charging devices and states of the power supply terminals, and determine M target winding pairs from the n winding pairs for supplying power to the charging devices. The M target winding pairs include a winding pair distributed close to a first end of the magnetic core and a winding pair distributed close to a second end of the magnetic core.

A dual-output AC-DC power converter with balanced DC output voltages is described. The DC power source has balanced DC voltage outputs relative to DC midpoint irrespective of DC load imbalance. The input to the power source is three-phase four-wire AC voltage source. Current draws from the AC three-phase voltage source have 12-pulse near sinusoidal waveform. Ripple voltage from DC positive rail to DC negative rail is 12-pulse.

Provided is an antenna device including an antenna unit including a rectifier circuit that receives electric field energy of a radio wave and a quasi-electrostatic field in a space and rectifies an AC signal into a direct current, the antenna unit including a first antenna element used in contact with a human body and a second antenna element that is a conductor different from the first antenna element and provided not to be in contact with the human body in a state where the human body is not grounded to a ground that is earth, in which an input line output to the rectifier circuit from the first antenna element used in contact with the human body of the AC signal output from the antenna unit is connected in series to the rectifier circuit.