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https://drivepatents.com/patents/1387281 · 13 May 2026
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for DC bus management. During startup, a power device may provide power at different voltages to the DC bus to ramp up the voltage of the DC bus from a zero voltage level to an operating voltage level. For ex...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1395549 · 14 May 2025
An apparatus and method for protection in power installations are disclosed. The apparatus includes a power converter (505,605) configured to convert input power to direct-current output power on a power converter output terminal, the power converter compr...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/969946 · 17 Sep 2014
A bypass mechanism for a photovoltaic module which switches out the electronics and switches in a bypass mechanism.
https://drivepatents.com/patents/969908 · 17 Sep 2014
A method to control storage into and depletion from multiple energy storage devices. The method enables an operative connection between the energy storage devices and respective power converters. The energy storage devices are connectible across respective...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/987980 · 31 Jul 2013
A power harvesting system including multiple parallel-connected photovoltaic strings, each photovoltaic string includes a series-connection of photovoltaic panels. Multiple voltage-compensation circuits may be connected in series respectively with the phot...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/988645 · 17 Jul 2013
A photovoltaic module including a photovoltaic panel (101) and an electrical circuit (103) connected thereto. The photovoltaic panel (101) includes multiple bus bars (a, b, c) connected to an input of the electrical circuit (103). The electrical circuit (1...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/985579 · 13 Mar 2013
A device for converting power from a floating source of DC power to a dual direct current (DC) output, the device includes: positive and negative input terminals connectible to the floating source of DC power; and positive and negative, and ground output t...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/993516 · 23 Jan 2013
A method for maintaining reliability of a distributed power system including a power converter having input terminals and output terminals. Input power is received at the input terminals. The input power is converted to an output power at the output termin...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/993761 · 16 Jan 2013
A photovoltaic panel with multiple photovoltaic sub-strings including serially-connected photovoltaic cells and having direct current (DC) outputs adapted for interconnection in parallel into a parallel-connected DC power source. A direct current (DC) powe...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1000259 · 18 Jul 2012
A micro-inverter (402) having input terminals and output terminals is adapted for inverting an input DC power received at the input terminals to an output alternating current (AC) power at the output terminals which have a voltage significantly less than a...