DC-DC converter

• US 20040037092A1
• Filed: 08/19/2003
• Published: 02/26/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nissin Electric Company Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nissin Electric Company Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Inventors: Hasebe, Takaya, Kurio, Nobuhiro
• Application Number:
  US10/642,681
• Publication Number:
  US 20040037092A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 363/17
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0077 Plural converter units whose outputs are connected in series
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/3376 with automatic control of output voltage or current

Abstract

A circuit configuration in which a pair of conversion circuit parts for converting a power source voltage of a DC power source into an AC by two pairs of switching elements made of a full bridge configuration are connected in parallel with the DC power source and rectification circuit parts are provided to the output sides of each of the conversion circuit parts through transformers and series capacitors are inserted and connected between each of the conversion circuit parts and the transformers is used as unitary units and n groups of the unitary units are provided with respect to the DC power source E and the transformer secondary sides of one rectification circuit parts of each of the unitary units are connected in series among the n groups and also the transformer secondary sides of the other rectification circuit parts are connected in series among the n groups.

Claims

1. A DC-DC converter comprising:

n groups of the unitary units provided with respect to a DC power source, the unitary unit having a pair of conversion circuit parts for converting a power source voltage of the DC power source into an AC by switching elements of a full bridge configuration, rectification circuit parts provided to the output sides of each of the conversion circuit parts through transformers, and series capacitors inserted and connected between each of the conversion circuit parts and the transformers,

wherein transformer secondary sides of one rectification circuit parts of each the unitary unit are connected in series among the n groups and also transformer secondary sides of the other rectification circuit parts of each the unitary unit are connected in series among the n groups.

2. A DC-DC converter as defined in claim 1, wherein a pair of the conversion circuit parts in the n groups of the unitary units are connected in parallel with the DC power source.

3. A DC-DC converter as defined in claim 1, wherein a pair of the conversion circuit parts in the n groups of the unitary units are connected in series with the DC power source.

4. A DC-DC converter as defined in claim 3, wherein the n groups of the unitary units are connected in parallel with the DC power source.

5. A DC-DC converter as defined in claim 3, wherein the n groups of the unitary units are connected in series with the DC power source.