US Patent 9876434 Bi-directional DC-DC converter

The present invention relates to a bi-directional DC-DC converter comprising: a first terminal, a second terminal, a transformer circuit, a first high voltage side coupled to said first terminal, and a second low voltage side coupled to said second terminal; wherein said first high voltage side and said second low voltage side are coupled to each other by means of said transformer circuit, and said first high voltage side comprises a resonant tank circuit coupled between a first bridge circuit of said first high voltage side and a high voltage side of said transformer circuit. Furthermore, the invention also relates to a system comprising at least two such bi-directional DC-DC converters.