US 11,949,342 B2
Multiple port power converter device
Peter Ibrahim, Westmount (CA); Hani Vahedi, Brossard (CA); Jean-Hugues Deschenes, Montréal (CA); and Marc-André Forget, Saint Lazare (CA)
Appl. No. 17/437,693
Filed by DCBEL INC., Montréal (CA)
PCT Filed Mar. 12, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CA2020/050334
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/181384, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 17, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/817,104, filed on Mar. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0149745 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. H02M 7/483 (2007.01); B60L 53/10 (2019.01); H02M 7/00 (2006.01); H02M 7/04 (2006.01)
CPC H02M 7/483 (2013.01) [B60L 53/11 (2019.02); H02M 7/003 (2013.01); H02M 7/043 (2013.01); B60L 2210/12 (2013.01); B60L 2210/14 (2013.01); B60L 2210/30 (2013.01); B60L 2210/40 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A power converter comprising:
at least two bi-directional power conversion circuit modules each having an AC port for AC input or output, a DC input or output and at least two DC ports;
each of said two bi-directional power conversion circuit modules comprising at least two switches for selectively connecting said DC input or output to one of said at least two DC ports;
a switch controller for controlling said switches of said power conversion circuit modules.