Patent ID: 11863064
Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A power converter comprising:
a plurality of switching tank converter (STC) modules configured to be connected in parallel and to a load, the plurality of STC modules not including a voltage feedback loop, the plurality of STC modules including a first STC module and a second STC module; and
a digital interface connected to the plurality of STC modules, the digital interface configured to share a value of a minimum output current with each STC module, the value of the minimum output current being a minimum of a first output current generated by the first STC module and a second output current generated by the second STC module,
in response to a value of the first output current being greater than the value of the minimum output current, the first STC module configured to increase a dead time;
the first STC module configured to convert an input voltage to a first output voltage during a plurality of STC cycles, wherein an individual STC cycle includes a plurality of STC phases where each STC phase is configured to generate a different resonant frequency, the first STC module configured to increase the dead time between temporally adjacent STC phases within the individual STC cycle.