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A pulse frequency modulation drive circuit (1114) for a piezoelectric transformer (1102) is provided. Circuit (1114) includes a piezoelectric transformer (1102) having a resonant frequency and an input and an output section. A frequency feedback network connected to the piezoelectric transformer (1102) and an output level sense (1112) connected to the piezoelectric transformer (1102) is also provided. A drive circuit (1114) has a first switch (S1) and a third switch (S3) having a capacitance (1118) therebetween. A second switch (S2) and a fourth switch (S4) connect a supply voltage (VIN) to each of a pair of inductors (L1 and L2) and the second switch (S2) and the fourth switch (S4) are driven 180 DEG out of phase at the resonant frequency of the piezoelectric transformer (1102).

An induced power system for being connected with and driving loads (300) includes a primary circuit (100) and a secondary circuit (200). The primary circuit (100) is provided with a primary inductor (110) for generating current induced magnetic filed. The secondary circuit (200) is provided with an induce generation portion (210) and a power distribution portion (220). The induce generation portion (210) is provided with a first inductor (211) and a second inductor (212) connected in series with each other and adjacent with the primary inductor (110), for generating induced alter current. The power distribution portion (220) is provided with a first capacitor (221), a second capacitor (222) and a switching device (225), in which the first capacitor (221) is connected with the first inductor (211) in series to generate series resonance, thus to provide a control power supply. The second capacitor (222) is connected with the first, the second inductors (211, 212) and the first capacitor (221) in parallel to generate parallel resonance, thus to provide a load power supply. When the switching device (225) is on, the load power supply is provided to the loads (300).

A method for driving a power bridge (1) which is used for controlling a multiphase electric load (3), connectable to said electric load (3) via several arms and drivable by switching functions which determine free wheel controlling vectors and are active for controlling the load. The inventive method consists in selecting a first switching function production method which produces a reduced number of combinations of switching functions corresponding to the free wheel control vectors or a second switching function production method which produces combinations of switching functions corresponding only to the active control vectors, wherein said method are defined according to a given reference voltage vector and in applying said selected for producing a sequence of control vectors from the produced combinations of switching functions.

A synchronous rectification circuit with dead time regulation being adapted for a forward power supply to regulate a dead time of a switch circuit is described. The synchronous rectification circuit has a first switch control circuit connected with a first switch to control ON / OFF of the first switch, a dead time regulation circuit connected with the first switch control circuit to produce a dead time regulation signal, and a second switch control circuit connected with a second switch and the dead time regulation circuit to control ON / OFF of the second switch.

The present invention provides miniature power supplies and circuitry for powering high-voltage devices.

A method and an arrangement of controlling a reverse-conducting IGBT (RC-IGBT) component in a circuit comprising a series connection of controllable switch components where at least one of the controllable switch components is an RC-IGBT and the other component is to be controlled to a conductive state. The method comprising applying a pre-trigger pulse to the gate electrode of the RC-IGBT during reverse conduction of the RC-IGBT at a first time instant (t1), the pre-trigger pulse corresponding to a turn-on gate pulse, applying a turn-on gate pulse at a second time instant (t2) to the other controllable switch component of the series connection for controlling the other controllable switch component to a conductive state such that the pre-trigger pulse and the turn-on gate pulse overlap, and ending the pre-trigger pulse after a delay time at the third time instant (t3), the delay time being the time period when the turn-on gate pulse and the pre-trigger pulse overlap.