# US 11,451,128 B2 · Floating-ground isolated power supply for an electronic converter

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- Number: US 11,451,128 B2
- Document ID: US11451128B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/979,065
- Filed: 2019-02-27
- Published: 2021-02-25
- Granted: 2022-09-20
- Earliest claimed: 2018-03-08
- Assignees: Ifp Energies Nouvelles
- Applicants: IFP Energies nouvelles
- Inventors: Dimitri Olszewski; Alexandre Battiston
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11451128B2

## CPC

- H02M 1/00: Details of apparatus for conversion
- H02M 1/08: Circuits specially adapted for the generation of control voltages for semiconductor devices incorporated in static converters
- H02M 3/33523: {with galvanic isolation between input and output of both the power stage and the feedback loop}
- H03K 17/691: using transformer coupling
- H02M 1/0006: {Arrangements for supplying an adequate voltage to the control circuit of converters}
- H02M 1/0009: {Devices or circuits for detecting current in a converter}
- H03K 2217/0081: Power supply means, e.g. to the switch driver
- H02M: APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF (transformers H01F; dynamo-electric converters H02K47/00; controlling transformers, reactors or choke coils, control or regulation of electric motors, generators or dynamo-electric converters H02P)
- H03K: PULSE TECHNIQUE (measuring pulse characteristics G01R; modulating sinusoidal oscillations with pulses H03C; transmission of digital information H04L; discriminator circuits detecting phase difference between two signals by counting or integrating cycles of oscillation H03D3/04; automatic control, starting, synchronisation or stabilisation of generators of electronic oscillations or pulses where the type of generator is irrelevant or unspecified H03L; coding, decoding or code conversion, in general H03M)

## Abstract

The invention is an electronic power system (1) for energy conversion, comprising at least one electronic amplifier driver circuit (10), at least one floating-ground isolated power supply (11) and at least one digital computation unit (2) for generating control signals (12). The invention more specifically relates to a floating-ground isolated power supply (11) from control signals (12).

## Claims

### Claim 1

An electronic power system for energy conversion, comprising:
at least one electronic driver circuit, at least one floating-ground isolated power supply and at least one digital computation unit for generating control signals, the electronic driver circuit comprises an electronic amplifier driver circuit which sends control signals to a pulse transformer associated with the at least one electronic amplifier driver circuit, and the floating-ground isolated power supply is connected to an output of the at least one electronic amplifier driver circuit so that the control signals from the electronic amplifier driver circuit are recovered and drive a floating-ground isolated power supply of the electronic power system, and wherein
the floating-ground isolated power supply comprises the pulse transformer and a rectifier connected to an output of a secondary of the pulse transformer.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

An electronic power system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rectifier is a diode rectifier.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

An electronic power system as claimed in claim 1, comprising an isolated current and voltage measuring device.

### Claim 4 (depends on 2)

An electronic power system as claimed in claim 2, comprising an isolated current and voltage measuring device.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

An electronic power system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronic amplifier driver circuit is an electronic non-isolated voltage and current level amplifier driver circuit with an output.

### Claim 6 (depends on 2)

An electronic power system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the electronic amplifier driver circuit is an electronic non-isolated voltage and current level amplifier driver circuit with an output.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

An electronic power system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronic amplifier driver circuit is an electronic non-isolated voltage and current level amplifier driver circuit with an output.

### Claim 8 (depends on 2)

An electronic power system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the electronic amplifier driver circuit is an electronic non-isolated voltage and current level amplifier driver circuit with an output.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

An electronic power system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the output of electronic amplifier driver circuit comprises transistors.

### Claim 10 (depends on 2)

An electronic power system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the output of electronic amplifier driver circuit comprises transistors.

### Claim 11 (depends on 3)

An electronic power system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the output of electronic amplifier driver circuit comprises transistors.

### Claim 12 (depends on 4)

An electronic power system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the output of electronic amplifier driver circuit comprises transistors.

### Claim 13 (depends on 1)

A floating-ground isolated power supply comprising a transformer and a rectifier, which supplies electrical power to an output of the electronic amplifier driver circuit of an electronic power system as claimed in claim 1.
