MAXIMUM POWER POINT CONTROLLER TRANSISTOR DRIVING CIRCUITRY AND ASSOCIATED METHODS

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United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20140103723A1
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13653392

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An electric power system includes a string of N maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controllers having output ports electrically coupled in series, where N is an integer greater than one. At least one of the N MPPT controllers includes respective transistor driver circuitry powered from a power supply rail of an adjacent one of the N MPPT controllers of the string. Another MPPT controller includes an n-channel field effect freewheeling transistor electrically coupled across an output port and a resistive device electrically coupled between an input port and a gate of the freewheeling transistor, such that the freewheeling transistor operates in its conductive state when power is applied to the input port and a control subsystem of the controller is in an inactive state.

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VOLTERRA SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION47467 FREMONT BOULEVARD FREMONT CA 94538

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Jergovic, Ilija Palo Alto, US 45 1130
Ng, Vincent W Milpitas, US 9 68
Stratakos, Anthony J Kentfield, US 40 1421
Zhang, Xin San Jose, US 895 4200

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