US 11,750,103 B2
Three-level rectification dc/dc converter
Minli Jia, Shanghai (CN); Hao Sun, Shanghai (CN); Chi Zhang, Apex, NC (US); Jinfa Zhang, Shanghai (CN); and Peter Mantovanelli Barbosa, Cary, NC (US)
Assigned to DELTA ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD., Shanghai (CN)
Filed by Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai (CN)
Filed on Jan. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/573,970.
Claims priority of application No. 202111463253.9 (CN), filed on Dec. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0179105 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
Int. Cl. H02M 3/335 (2006.01); H02M 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC H02M 3/33584 (2013.01) [H02M 3/01 (2021.05); H02M 3/33592 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A three-level rectification DC/DC converter, comprising:
a primary circuit receiving an input voltage and comprising a plurality of primary switches;
a resonant tank circuit comprising a resonant inductor, a resonant capacitor, and a transformer, wherein a first primary terminal and a second primary terminal of the resonant tank circuit are coupled to the primary circuit, a primary winding of the transformer is coupled between the first and second primary terminals, a secondary winding of the transformer is coupled between a first secondary terminal and a second secondary terminal of the resonant tank circuit, a voltage between the first and second primary terminals is a first voltage, a voltage between the first and second secondary terminals is a second voltage; and
a secondary circuit comprising a switch bridge arm and a capacitor bridge arm, wherein the switch bridge arm comprises a first secondary switch, a second secondary switch, a third secondary switch, and a fourth secondary switch sequentially connected in series, a node between the first and second secondary switches is connected to the first secondary terminal, a node between the third and fourth secondary switches is connected to the second secondary terminal, the capacitor bridge arm comprises a first output capacitor and a second output capacitor connected in series, a node between the first and second output capacitors is connected to a node between the second and third secondary switches, two terminals of the capacitor bridge arm are connected to two terminals of the switch bridge arm, and a voltage between the two terminals of the capacitor bridge arm is an output voltage,
wherein the first, second, third, and fourth secondary switches have a same switching frequency, there are two rising edges and two falling edges in two consecutive periods of the first voltage, the first and fourth secondary switches are at least in an on state for a preset time length after the two falling edges respectively, and the second and third secondary switches are at least in the on state for the preset time length after the two rising edges respectively.