Maximum power tracking among different groups of distributed power sources with uniform time/voltage distribution control

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11,056,881
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Device and Method

An apparatus may include a group of distributed-input series-output (DISO) converters, each of which are actively controlled by a common maximum power tracking (MPT) controller. The common MPT controller is configured to actively control one of the DISO converters in the group of DISO converters to update a present group-peak power voltage of the one DISO converters while remaining DISO converters in the group of DISO converters are controlled to hold most recently grouped peak power voltages updated during their previously non-overlapping uniform time windows of active MPT control.

Keywords: power, power tracking
International Class: H02J 3/38 (20060101), H02J 1/10 (20060101), H02M 7/5387 (20070101), H02J 7/00 (20060101), H02M 3/335 (20060101)