Power converter

• US 10,511,176 B2
• Filed: 04/21/2016
• Issued: 12/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Delta Electronics Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Delta Electronics Incorporated
• Inventors: Zeng, Jianhong, Hu, Peiqing, Ye, Haoyi, Chen, Yan, Dai, Jiale, Zhou, Ziying
• Primary Examiner(s): Barnie, Rexford N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vu, Toan T
• Application Number:
  US15/134,478
• Publication Number:
  US 20170012442A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,335 Days
• Field of Search: 307 31
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 5/00 Circuit arrangements for transfer of electric power between ac networks and dc networks H02J3/36 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0048 Circuits or arrangements for reducing losses using snubbers H02M1/34
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/008 Plural converter units for generating at two or more independent and non-parallel outputs, e.g. systems with plural point of load switching regulators
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/14 Arrangements for reducing ripples from dc input or output
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33571 Half-bridge at primary side of an isolation transformer
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33592 having a synchronous rectifier circuit or a synchronous freewheeling circuit at the secondary side of an isolation transformer
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/10 Technologies improving the efficiency by using switched-mode power supplies [SMPS], i.e. efficient power electronics conversion e.g. power factor correction or reduction of losses in power supplies or efficient standby modes

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a power converter, including: a pre-stage circuit, configured to receive an input voltage and convert the input voltage to a bus voltage; and plurality of post-stage circuits, connected in parallel to an output terminal of the pre-stage circuit, and configured to receive the bus voltage from the pre-stage circuit and each converts the bus voltage to an output voltage. The power converter provided by the present disclosure can effectively solve the problems of isolation and the wide range of operating voltage, and can take both of high efficiency and high power density into consideration.

Claims

1. A power converter, comprising:

a pre-stage circuit, configured to receive an input voltage and convert the input voltage to a bus voltage; and

a plurality of post-stage circuits, connected in parallel to an output terminal of the pre-stage circuit, and configured to receive the bus voltage from the pre-stage circuit and each converts the bus voltage to an output voltage,

wherein the pre-stage circuit comprises a first capacitor disposed on an output side of the pre-stage circuit, and each of the post-stage circuits comprises a second capacitor disposed on an input side of the post-stage circuit,

wherein the power converter comprises an inductor disposed between the first capacitor and the second capacitor, and

wherein the second capacitor is connected in series with the inductor to define a first series branch, the first series branch is connected in parallel across the first capacitor, and a distance between the first capacitor and the second capacitor is set to satisfy both of following conditions;

at a frequency of an output current of the pre-stage circuit, an absolute value of an impedance of the first series branch is less than or equal to

2. The power converter according to claim 1, wherein a number of the pre-stage circuit is more than one, and input terminals of the pre-stage circuits are connected in parallel.

3. The power converter according to claim 1, wherein the input voltage is greater than 10 times of the output voltage.

4. The power converter according to claim 1, wherein the input voltage ranges from 10V to 500V.

5. The power converter according to claim 1, wherein the output voltage ranges from 0.5V to 3.3V.

6. The power converter according to claim 1, wherein the pre-stage circuit is an isolation circuit or a non-isolation circuit, and each of the post-stage circuits is a non-isolation circuit.

7. The power converter according to claim 1, wherein the pre-stage circuit is any one of a half-bridge circuit, a full-bridge circuit, a forward circuit, a flyback circuit, a BUCK circuit, a LLC resonant circuit or a LC circuit, and each of the post-stage circuits is any one of a boost circuit, a BUCK circuit and a BUCK-boost circuit.

8. The power converter according to claim 1, wherein the first capacitor and the second capacitor are a capacitor.

9. The power converter according to claim 1, wherein the first capacitor comprises a plurality of capacitors connected in parallel or the second capacitor comprises a plurality of capacitors connected in parallel.

10. The power converter according to claim 1, wherein the inductor is a parasitic inductor depending on a set distance between the first capacitor and the second capacitor.

12. The power converter according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of post-stage circuits are connected to the output terminal of the pre-stage circuit in an interleaving mode.

13. The power converter according to claim 12, wherein the interleaving mode has unequal phase differences.

14. The power converter according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of post-stage circuits comprises a first post-stage circuit, a second post-stage circuit and a third post-stage circuit, wherein when a duty cycle of the first post-stage circuit, the second post-stage circuit and the third post-stage circuit is D>

50%, if an initial phase of a driving signal for the semiconductor switch device of the pre-stage circuit is 0 degree, an initial phase of a driving signal for the first post-stage circuit is 0 degree, an initial phase of a driving signal for the second post-stage circuit is (1−

D)*360 degrees, and an initial phase of a driving signal for the third post-stage circuit is (1−

D)*180 degree; and

each working frequency of the first, the second and the third post-stage circuits is two times of a working frequency of the pre-stage circuit; and

when a duty cycle of the first post-stage circuit, the second post-stage circuit and the third post-stage circuit is 50%≥

D>

25%, if the initial phase of a driving signal for the semiconductor switch device of the pre-stage circuit is 0 degree, the initial phase of the driving signal for the first post-stage circuit is (0.5−

D)*360 degrees, the initial phase of the driving signal for the second post-stage circuit is 180 degrees, and the initial phase of the driving signal for the third post-stage circuit is (1−

D)*180 degrees; and

each working frequency of the first, the second and the third post-stage circuits is two times of a working frequency of the pre-stage circuit.

15. The power converter according to claim 1, wherein output terminals of the post-stage circuits are connected in parallel, for outputting an output voltage to supply power to a load.

16. The power converter according to claim 1, wherein output terminals of the pre-stage circuit are electrically connected with a load, to supply the bus voltage as power to the load.

17. The power converter according to claim 1, wherein the power converter comprises a plurality of loads, each of the loads is electrically connected with an output terminal of one of the plurality of post-stage circuits correspondingly.

18. The power converter according to claim 1, further comprising molding material, the molding material covers the pre-stage circuit and the plurality of post-stage circuits.

11. A power converter, comprising:

a pre-stage circuit, configured to receive an input voltage and convert the input voltage to a bus voltage; and

a plurality of post-stage circuits, connected in parallel to an output terminal of the pre-stage circuit, and configured to receive the bus voltage from the pre-stage circuit and each converts the bus voltage to an output voltage,

wherein the pre-stage circuit comprises a first capacitor disposed on an output side of the pre-stage circuit, and each of the post-stage circuits comprises a capacitor disposed on an input side of the post-stage circuit,

wherein the power converter comprises an inductor disposed between the first capacitor and the second capacitor, and

wherein the first capacitor is connected in series with the inductor to define a second series branch, the second series branch is connected in parallel across the second capacitor, and a distance between the first capacitor and the second capacitor is set to satisfy both of following conditions;

at a frequency of an input current frequency of a post-stage circuit, an absolute value of an impedance of the second series branch is less than or equal to

19. The power converter according to claim 11, wherein the first capacitor and the second capacitor are a capacitor.

20. The power converter according to claim 11, wherein the first capacitor comprises a plurality of capacitors connected in parallel or the second capacitor comprises a plurality of capacitors connected in parallel.