Power Adapter with Line Voltage Control for USB Power Delivery
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The demand for high-power-density high-efficiency power adapters is increasing due to the wide adopt of the USB Power Delivery as the charging protocol in consumer electronics. Flyback converters have conventionally prevailed for such applications. To further improve the power density of power adapters, an increase in switching frequency is required. However, this will increase the burden of the EMI filter, and the heat will be difficult to manage as the loss increases when size is reduced. Resonant converters have long been used for high frequency applications due to the easily-implemented soft switching and low current stresses. With the development of faster switching devices and new ferrites, the switching frequency of resonant converters is pushed as high as megahertz with acceptable thermal performance. In this paper, a series resonant converter is combined with the proposed line voltage control circuit to accommodate both the 120 VAC and the 220 VAC lines, as well as the wide output voltage range from 5 V to 20 V required by the USB Power Delivery. In the 60 W prototype, peak 94% efficiency is achieved at 1 MHz operation enabled by a budget MCU.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
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Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".