US 12,348,050 B2
Variable compensation inverter circuit and related techniques
Khurram K. Afridi, Boulder, CO (US); Sreyam Sinha, Boulder, CO (US); and Ashish Kumar, Boulder, CO (US)
Assigned to The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate, Denver, CO (US)
Appl. No. 16/633,796
Filed by The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate, Denver, CO (US)
PCT Filed Jul. 26, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/043852
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 24, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/023432, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 31, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/537,321, filed on Jul. 26, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0195043 A1, Jun. 18, 2020
Int. Cl. H02J 50/05 (2016.01); H02J 50/12 (2016.01); H02M 3/335 (2006.01); H02M 1/00 (2006.01); H02M 7/48 (2007.01)
CPC H02J 50/05 (2016.02) [H02J 50/12 (2016.02); H02M 3/33569 (2013.01); H02M 1/007 (2021.05); H02M 7/4815 (2021.05)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A variable compensation inverter circuit comprising:
a variable compensation inverter circuit input port;
a variable compensation inverter circuit output port;
a power splitter circuit comprising a power splitter circuit input port coupled to the variable compensation inverter circuit input port, the power splitter circuit comprising a first power splitter circuit output port and a second power splitter circuit output port;
a first inverter circuit comprising a first inverter circuit input port and a first inverter circuit output port, the first inverter circuit input port coupled to the first power splitter circuit output port;
a second inverter circuit comprising a second inverter circuit input port and a second inverter circuit output port, the second inverter circuit input port coupled to the second power splitter circuit output port; and
a power combiner circuit comprising a first power combiner circuit input port, a second power combiner circuit input port and a power combiner circuit output port, wherein the first power combiner circuit input port is coupled to the first inverter circuit output port, the second power combiner circuit input port is coupled to the second inverter circuit output port and the power combiner circuit output port is coupled to the variable compensation inverter circuit output port,
wherein the power splitter circuit is adapted to alter a first voltage level at the first inverter input port and a second voltage at the second inverter input port and the variable compensation inverter circuit is adapted to alter the reactive compensation provided by the variable compensation inverter circuit via a ratio of the first voltage level to the second voltage level.