Single-ended dc to ac power inverter
AssigneeMonolithic Power Systems, Inc.
InventorsWei Chen, Yuancheng Ren, Junming Zhang, Lei Du
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Abstract
An inverter comprising a low-side switching element in series with a first primary winding; a high-side switching element in series with a second primary winding, where the combination of the low-side switching element and first primary winding is connected in parallel with the combination of the high-side switching element and the second primary winding; and a clamping capacitor having one terminal connected to the first primary winding and having a second terminal connected to the second primary winding. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims20
A circuit comprising:
- a capacitor having a first terminal and a second terminal;
- a low-side switching element having a first terminal connected to the first terminal of the capacitor, and having a second terminal;
- a high-side switching element having a first terminal connected to the second terminal of the capacitor, and having a second terminal;
- a first primary winding having a first terminal connected to the first terminal of capacitor, and having a second terminal connected to the second terminal of the high side switching element;
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- a second primary winding having a first terminal connected to the second terminal of the capacitor, and having a second terminal.
The circuit as set forth in 8, further comprising:
- a resonant circuit connected to the secondary winding.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.