Galvanic isolation system for multiple gate drivers with inductive power transfer—Drive of three-phase inverter

K Kusaka, M Kato, K Orikawa, J Itoh… - 2015 IEEE Energy …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Medium-voltage motor drive systems, medium-voltage inverters, which have an input
voltage and an output voltage of 3.3 kV or 6.6 kV, are widely used in industry applications. In …

Isolation system with wireless power transfer for multiple gate driver supplies of a medium voltage inverter

K Kusaka, K Orikawa, J Itoh, K Morita… - … (IPEC-Hiroshima 2014 …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a multiple wireless power transfer system for multiple gate driver supplies of a
medium voltage inverter is developed. The proposed isolation system achieves a galvanic …

A 3-phase AC–AC matrix converter GaN chipset with drive-by-microwave technology

S Nagai, Y Yamada, N Negoro, H Handa… - IEEE Journal of the …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes an ultracompact GaN 3× 3 matrix power converter with drive-by-
microwave (DBM) technology, which comprises a radio frequency (RF)-triggered GaN-gate …

Switching synchronization for isolated electronics topologies

O Trescases, S Poshtkouhi, RK Orr… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
One or more first switches coupled to one of a primary transformer winding and a secondary
transformer winding are controlled based on a first Switch control reference clock signal. A …

Galvanic isolation system with wireless power transfer for multiple gate driver supplies of a medium-voltage inverter

K Kusaka, K Orikawa, J Itoh, I Hasegawa… - IEEJ Journal of …, 2016 - jstage.jst.go.jp
In recent years, the system voltage of a three-phase medium-voltage inverter for industrial
applications has risen to 3.3 kV or 6.6 kV (1)–(5). In a medium-voltage inverter, galvanic …

A compact drive-by-microwave gate driver with coupler integrated in a package

S Nagai, Y Kawai, O Tabata, H Fujiwara… - 2014 IEEE Applied …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A low cost and compact isolated gate driver with Drive-by-Microwave technology is
developed, which consists of 2.4 GHz GaN/Si transmitter and receiver chips and the butterfly …

Pll based bridge synchronization as an alternative to digital isolators for dual active bridge dc-dc converters

S Poshtkouhi, A Eski… - 2015 IEEE Applied Power …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Digital isolators are widely used in isolated power converters for transmitting high-frequency
gating pulses. Conventional opto-isolators suffer from low reliability and poor delay …

A Drive-by-Microwave isolated gate driver with a high-speed voltage monitoring

S Nagai, Y Kawai, O Tabata, H Fujiwara… - 2014 IEEE 26th …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new isolated Drive-by-Microwave (DBM) gate driver with a high-speed voltage monitoring
for over current detection is proposed, which is composed of a 2.4 GHz GaN/Si DBM …

An isolated DC power supply free compact GaN inverter module

Y Kawai, S Nagai, O Tabata, H Fujiwara… - 2015 IEEE 11th …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A low-cost and small size inverter module is required for a low-power motor system. In this
work, we developed a compact GaN inverter module that is composed of GaN-GIT power …

A one-chip isolated gate driver with Drive-by-Microwave technologies

S Nagai, N Negoro, T Fukuda, N Otsuka… - … on Radio-Frequency …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have developed new isolated gate drivers using what we call Drive-by-Microwave
technology that enables wireless power transmission of input signals. In order to realize the …