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Title: One Cycle Control Of Bipolar Switching Power Amplifiers
UC Case No: 1995-073-1-ott
Categories: Electrical Engineering: Motors and Power Electronics
Technology: Researchers at the Power Electronics Laboratory at University of California, Irvine, received a U.S. patent for a device that uses one cycle control for controlling DC-to-AC switching converters. This is achieved by forcing the average of a controlled switched variable to be exactly equal to the control reference in each switching cycle. Potential subharmonic oscillations in a switching power amplifier, which occurs in the DC-to-AC application of this method is prevented by adding an offset voltage to the averaged controlled switched variable. This is fed back and compared to a control reference, which compares and is then used to switch the switching power amplifier. Switching errors are corrected by resetting the integrator that averages the controlled switched variable and a time interval at least an order or magnitude less than the switching time of the switches in the switching power amplifier.
Contact: Demetrios Andrikos, Director, Engineering & Physical Sciences
Office of Technology Alliances
University of California, Irvine
380 University Tower
Irvine, CA 92697-7700

Phone: (949) 824-1233
FAX: (949) 824-2899
Email: dandriko@uci.edu
Patent Status: U.S. Patent No. 5,617,306
UCI School: School of Engineering
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering