Patent ID: 8553438
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: H02J,H02M,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: generating a control signal based on an output voltage at an output terminal; controlling a plurality of slaves to generate a plurality of outputs at a plurality of intermediate terminals, each slave of the plurality of slaves having an intermediate terminal from the plurality of intermediate terminals, including controlling, based on the control signal, a switching circuit for coupling the intermediate terminal to an input terminal; transmitting the plurality of outputs to respective inputs of a plurality of inductors, the plurality of inductors having a first inductor bank with two or more inductors that are phase-coupled to each other and a second inductor bank with two or more inductors that are phase-coupled to each other independently of the two or more inductors in the first inductor bank; and combining current outputs of the first inductor bank and the second inductor bank with the first inductor bank and the second inductor bank inductively decoupled.