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Direct current to direct current converter

US4254459A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJan 8, 1979
Grant dateMar 3, 1981
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Expiry dateJan 8, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH02M3/3384
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A direct current-to-direct current converter is disclosed wherein a saturable core oscillator provides squarewave alternating current signals to the bases of two transistors of a class B push-pull amplifier such that the two transistors are alternately biased into conducting states. Each transistor controls the current in one section of a center-tapped primary winding of a transformer such that the alternation of conduction between transistors produces an alternating flux density in the core of the transformer and direct current is provided by rectifying and filtering the alternating current induced thereby in the secondary winding of the transformer.

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