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A power supply system according to the present invention comprises: a primary side coil; a power transmission apparatus having a primary side circuit for feeding a pulse voltage resulted from switching a DC voltage which is obtained by rectifying and smoothing a commercial power supply to the primary side coil; a secondary side coil magnetically coupled to the primary side coil; and power reception equipment having a secondary side circuit for rectifying and smoothing voltage induced across the secondary side coil, wherein there is provided a power adjusting section for adjusting a level of power to be transmitted according to power required by the power reception equipment. The power adjusting section has, in the primary side circuit, a carrier wave oscillation circuit for supplying a carrier wave to the primary side coil, a demodulation circuit for demodulating a modulated signal transmitted from the secondary circuit and received by the primary side coil, and a power change-over section for selecting a level of power to be transmitted according to an information signal from the power reception equipment and demodulated by the demodulation circuit. The power adjusting section has, in the secondary side circuit, a modulation circuit for modulating the carrier wave fed from the carrier wave oscillation circuit and received by the secondary side coil with the information signal from the power reception equipment and transmitting the modulated signal.

A power supply system is provided, having: a primary side coil; a power transmission apparatus having a primary side circuit for feeding a pulse voltage resulted from switching a DC voltage which is obtained by rectifying and smoothing a commercial power supply to the primary side coil; a secondary side coil magnetically coupled to the primary side coil; and power reception equipment having a secondary side circuit for rectifying and smoothing voltage induced across the secondary side coil, wherein there is provided a power adjusting section for adjusting a level of power to be transmitted according to power required by the power reception equipment. The power adjusting section has, in the primary side circuit, a carrier wave oscillation circuit for supplying a carrier wave to the primary side coil, a demodulation circuit for demodulating a modulated signal transmitted from the secondary circuit and received by the primary side coil, and a power change-over section for selecting a level of power to be transmitted according to an information signal from the power reception equipment and demodulated by the demodulation circuit. The power adjusting section has, in the secondary side circuit, a modulation circuit for modulating the carrier wave fed from the carrier wave oscillation circuit and received by the secondary side coil with the information signal from the power reception equipment and transmitting the modulated signal.

A surface mount pulse transformer has a drum type core including a core and first and second flanges disposed on both ends of the core and installed on a substrate and a primary winding wire and a secondary winding wire wound around the core and provided with an intermediate tap, respectively, wherein first and second terminal electrodes being connected to each of both ends of the primary winding wire and a third terminal electrode for connecting being connected to the intermediate tap of the secondary winding wire are disposed on the surface of the first flange and a fourth terminal electrode being connected to the intermediate tap of the primary winding wire and fifth and sixth terminal electrodes being connected to each of both ends of the secondary winding wire are disposed on the surface of the second flange.

There is provided a power transmission control device included in a power transmission device in a contactless power transmission system that transmits power from the power transmission device to a power receiving device by electromagnetically coupling a primary coil to a secondary coil to supply the power to a load of the power receiving device. The power transmission control device includes a controller controlling the power transmission control device, a host interface communicating with a power transmission-side host, and a register section accessible from the power transmission-side host via the host interface. The controller shifts into a communication mode that executes communication between the power transmission-side host and a power receiving-side host, when the power transmission-side host writes, via the host interface, a communication request command that requests the communication between the hosts in the register section. Then, the controller transmits the communication request command to the power receiving device.

A switching circuit for supplying current to a load has a switching element, an inductive element coupled to the switching element, and a load current extraction circuit responsive to current in the inductive element for producing a load current signal as a simulated current approximating current in the load.

The present invention provides an inductively powered sensor system having a primary conductive path capable of being energized to provide an electromagnetic field in a defined space. An inductive power pick-up is associated with a sensor and is capable of receiving power from the field to supply the sensor. The system includes a first sensing unit to sense the power available to the pick-up and a control unit to increase or decrease the power available to the sensor dependant on the sensed power available. A method of inductively powering a sensor, an inductively powered sensor and an animal enclosure including one or more primary conductive path of an inductive power supply are also disclosed.

A power converter includes a power train with a coupled inductor and a plurality of regulators, and method of forming and operating the same. In one embodiment, the power train includes a coupled inductor including a magnetic core with a common leg, a first leg and a second leg. The coupled inductor also includes a common winding formed around the common leg, and first and second windings. The first winding is formed around the first leg, and is electrically and magnetically coupled to the common winding. The second winding is formed around the second leg, and is electrically and magnetically coupled to the common winding. The power train also includes a first regulator including a first main switch coupled to the first winding and a second regulator including a second main switch coupled to the second winding.

A planar coil including and insulating substrate, and a coil conductive filament having a thickness of 20 to 400 mum and formed on at least one surface of the insulating substrate, the coil conductive filament having a gap whose aspect ratio (H / G) is at least 1. The coil conductive filament has a cross-section in a substantially mushroom shape having a head and a neck, the head has a width (L) which is a least twice as large as a width (l) of the neck thereof, at most 1.5 times as large as a height of the head, and at least twice as large as a minimum spacing (G) between adjacent coil conductive filaments.

A switching power supply has a transformer for power transmission. A core is provided having an intermediate leg and at least a pair of external legs arranged at equal intervals from the intermediate leg; a first printed coil is provided on a first substrate which has an intermediate hole and a pair of external holes respectively inserted in the intermediate leg and the pair of external legs of the core, the first printed coil being wound around the intermediate hole; a second printed coil is provided on a second substrate which has an intermediate hole and a pair of external holes respectively inserted in the intermediate leg and the pair of external legs of the core, the second printed coil including a pair of external printed coils which are connected in series and are respectively wound around the pair of the external holes and each having the same number of turns but wound in opposite directions. The pair of external printed coils of the second printed coil generate magnetic fields in opposite directions to each other in the intermediate leg such that the magnetic fields in the intermediate leg cancel each other and induce no induction voltage in the first printed coil, and induction voltages induced in the external printed coils of the second printed coil by magnetic flux generated by the first printed coil are substantially canceled, whereby the first printed coil and the second printed coil form separate inductors which are not magnetically coupled. A third printed coil is provided on a third substrate which has an intermediate hole and a pair of external holes respectively inserted in the intermediate leg and the pair of external legs of the core, the third printed coil being wound around the intermediate hole, whereby the first printed coil is magnetically coupled with the third printed coil to form a first transformer; and further wherein the tranformer for power transmission comprises the first transformer.

A switching circuit for supplying current to a load has a switching element, an inductive element coupled to the switching element, and a load current extraction circuit responsive to current in the inductive element for producing a load current signal as a simulated current approximating current in the load.

A resonant converter is provided which may be used for supplying power to the primary conductive path of an inductively coupled power transfer (ICPT) system. The converter includes a variable reactive element in the resonant circuit which may be controlled to vary the effective inductance or capacitance of the reactive element. The frequency of the converter is stabilised to a nominal value by sensing the frequency of the converter resonant circuit, comparing the sensed frequency with a nominal frequency and varying the effective inductance or capacitance of the variable reactive element to adjust the converter frequency toward the nominal frequency.

A microelectronic assembly including a die substrate, a plurality of electronic components formed in and on the die substrate and connected to one another to form an integrated circuit, a first and a second single-turn inductor, and a magnetic material electro-magnetically coupling the first and the second single-turn inductor to one another to form a transformer, the transformer being connected to the integrated circuit.

A switching power supply circuit is disclosed which can achieve a high power conversion efficiency and besides achieve reduction of the circuit scale and the cost by simplification in circuit configuration. The switching power supply circuit includes a synchronous rectification circuit of the winding voltage detection system on the secondary side of a resonance converter. The coupling coefficient of an insulating converter transformer or the induced voltage level per one turn of the secondary winding is set so that the magnetic flux density of the insulating converter transformer may be lower than a fixed level thereby to maintain the secondary side rectification current in a continuous mode even in a heavy load condition. An inductor is inserted in series in a path along which rectification current is to be supplied to a secondary side smoothing capacitor so that reverse current appearing on the rectification current is suppressed by counter electromotive force generated in the inductor to further reduce the reactive power. A dc superposition characteristic of the inductor is set so that abnormal oscillation in a very light load condition (for example, 12.5 W or less) is prevented.

A method of manufacturing an on-chip transformer balun includes creating, on a semiconductor substrate, a primary winding having at least one substantially symmetrical primary turn on a first dielectric layer and at least one metal bridge on a second layer. A secondary winding is created on the semiconductor substrate, the secondary winding having at least one substantially symmetrical secondary turn on a third dielectric layer and at least one metal bridge on a fourth dielectric layer. In an alternative embodiment, the primary winding has at least one first primary turn on a first dielectric layer and at least one second primary turn on a second dielectric layer and at least one via that operably connects the first primary turn to the second primary turn. The secondary winding has at least one first secondary turn on a third dielectric layer and at least one second secondary turn on a fourth dielectric layer.

In one embodiment of the present invention, a wireless interface is provided for supplying all signals and power exclusively wirelessly from a transmitting section to a receiving section. The transmitting section includes a transmitter arranged to modulate a carrier with signals, such as data, control and timing signals. The transmitter is connected to a transmit antenna which comprises a parallel resonant circuit in series with a series resonant circuit. The parallel and series resonant circuits include inductors which are inductively coupled to an inductor of a receive antenna in the receiving section.

The current invention provides an integrated planar transformer and electronic component that includes at least one wideband planar transformer disposed in a planar substrate, where each wideband planar transformer includes a planar substrate in a fully-cured and rigid state, a ferrite material embedded in the planar substrate, where the ferrite material is enveloped in an elastic and non-conductive material, inter-wound conductors disposed around the embedded ferrite material, where top and bottom conductors are bonded by an insulating adhesive. The top and bottom conductors are connected in an inter-connected pattern by conductive vias disposed on each side of the ferrite material and span through the layers to the conductors. The planar transformer further includes at least one center tap connected to at least one inter-wound conductor. The integrated planar transformer and electronic component further includes at least one electronic component connected to at least one terminal of the wide-band planar transformer.

A planar transformer arrangement and method provide isolation between an input signal and an output signal. The planar transformer arrangement includes a planar medium having a first layer, a second layer, and a dielectric interlayer arranged between the first and second layers; at least one meandering primary winding arranged on the first layer of the planar medium, a current flow being induced within the primary winding in accordance with the input signal; at least one meandering secondary winding arranged on the second layer of the planar medium, the primary and secondary windings forming a planar transformer, whereby a voltage is induced across the secondary winding in accordance with the current flow within the primary winding; and a mode elimination arrangement configured to produce a compensated voltage by compensating for a common mode interference on the voltage induced across the secondary winding, the mode elimination arrangement being further configured to generate the output signal in accordance with the compensated voltage; wherein the dielectric interlayer of the planar medium provides a voltage isolation between the primary and secondary windings.

A power conversion system includes an input terminal that is arranged to be connected to a voltage source; a transformer having a first winding connected to the input terminal and a second winding connected to an output terminal of the power conversion system, either the first winding or the second winding is provided with at least three taps that are arranged to divide the first winding or the second winding into at least two sub-windings; at least one tap switch connected to the at least two sub-windings; a control circuit connected to the at least one tap switch; and at least one switch connected to the at least one tap switch. The control circuit is arranged to control the at least one tap switch to control the turn ratio of the transformer.

An electronic assembly includes a substrate (66), a balun transformer (42) formed on the substrate (66) and including a first winding (50) and a second winding (52), each having respective first and second ends, and a reaction circuit component (48) formed on the substrate (66) and electrically coupled to the second winding (52) between the first and second ends thereof. The balun transformer (42) and the reaction circuit component (48) jointly form a harmonically suppressed balun transformer having a fundamental frequency, and the reaction circuit component (48) is tuned such that the harmonically suppressed balun transformer resonates at a selected harmonic of the fundamental frequency.

The present invention provides a power micromagnetic integrated circuit having a ferromagnetic core, a method of manufacture therefor and a power processing circuit employing the same, that-includes: (1) a substrate; (2) an insulator coupled to the substrate and (3) a metallic adhesive that forms a bond between the insulator and the ferromagnetic core to secure the ferromagnetic core to the substrate.

The current invention provides an integrated planar transformer and electronic component that includes at least one wideband planar transformer disposed in a planar substrate, where each wideband planar transformer includes a planar substrate in a fully-cured and rigid state, a ferrite material embedded in the planar substrate, where the ferrite material is enveloped in an elastic and non-conductive material, inter-wound conductors disposed around the embedded ferrite material, where top and bottom conductors are bonded by an insulating adhesive. The top and bottom conductors are connected in an inter-connected pattern by conductive vias disposed on each side of the ferrite material and span through the layers to the conductors. The planar transformer further includes at least one center tap connected to at least one inter-wound conductor. The integrated planar transformer and electronic component further includes at least one electronic component connected to at least one terminal of the wide-band planar transformer.

A core assembly used for a wireless power transmitting device and a wireless power transmitting device having the same. The core assembly for the wireless power transmitting device includes: a main coil disposed at a first level; an auxiliary coil disposed at a lower side of the main coil such that the auxiliary coil is located at a second level lower than the first level, and including a first sub coil and a second sub coil, which respectively have a portion overlapped with the main coil and respectively have a size smaller than the main coil; and a core of a magnetic substance configured to accommodate the main coil and the auxiliary coil.

A method of controlling the grid-side current of a single-phase grid-connected converter having an LCL filter connected between the output of the converter and the grid. The method includes measuring a grid voltage (vS) and at least one signal in a group of signals consisting of a grid-side current (i0), a converter-side current (i1) and a capacitor voltage (vC0). The method includes estimating the fundamental component (vS,1) of the grid voltage (vS), forming a grid-side current reference (i0*), a converter-side current reference (i1*) and a capacitor voltage reference (vC0*) for the grid-side current of the LCL filter using the fundamental component of the grid voltage (vS,1), forming estimates for the non-measured signals in said group of signals, forming a grid-side current difference term (ĩ0), a converter-side current difference term (ĩ1) and a capacitor voltage difference term ({tilde over (v)}C0) from the differences between the references and measured / estimated values of said signals, forming an injection term for damping the resonance of the LCL filter by using an active damping injection mechanism (ADI), in which the grid-side current difference term (ĩ0), the converter-side current difference term (ĩ1) and the capacitor voltage difference term ({tilde over (v)}C0) are used, forming an estimate of harmonic distortion term ({circumflex over (φ)}) using the grid-side current difference term (ĩ0), and controlling the output voltage (e) of the converter on the basis of the grid voltage, formed injection term and formed estimate of the harmonic distortion term ({circumflex over (φ)}) to produce a grid side (i0) current corresponding to the current reference.

The present invention relates to a lighting system comprising a base part (12) with at least one primary coil (18), and at least one light module (13, 14) with a secondary coil (26) adapted to inductively interact with the primary coil (18). The lighting system is characterized in that said base part (12) comprises a substrate (50) carrying said primary coil (18), the winding of which lying in one plane and forming a flat coupling area (16); the winding of the second coil (26) lies in one plane; and said light module (13, 14) comprises at least one light element (20) and a flat bottom surface, so that the light module (13, 14) is placeable with its flat surface on the flat coupling area (16).

In such a voltage equalizer circuit in which each of plural windings P1 to Pn electromagnetically coupled to each other, each of plural storage elements E1 to En series-connected to each other, and each of plural first switching elements S1 to Sn are connected to each other in a series connecting manner so as to constitute a plurality of closed circuits, this voltage equalizer apparatus is featured by that a reference voltage winding Pp electromagnetically coupled to the plurality of windings is provided; both a DC power supply Ep and a second switching element Sp are series-connected to the second winding; and all of the plural first switching elements and the second switching element are turned ON / OFF in a synchronous manner.