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Decentralized oscillator-based converter control

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1568558

A device includes a control unit that includes an oscillator circuit. The control unit is configured to generate, based on the oscillator circuit, at least one switching signal. The device also includes a direct current (DC)-to-DC conversion circuit comprising at least one electronic switch that is operatively coupled to the control unit. The DC-to-DC conversion circuit is configured to convert, based on the at least one switching signal, a DC input voltage to a DC output voltage, and the control unit is further configured to input, to the oscillator circuit, a current signal that is generated based on a measured output current of the DC-to-DC conversion circuit.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
Assignee:
Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, CO); Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN); ETH Zurich (Zurich, CH)
Patent Number(s):
10,340,801
Application Number:
15/973,161
OSTI ID:
1568558
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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