Power Packet Router With Power and Signal Switches for a Single Power Packet

Abstract

This brief proposes a power packet router (router) and experimentally verifies its operation. A power packet is a unit of DC power and an information tag. When the tag is attached to the power directly, a power packet ensures their simultaneity during the transmission. The router sends and receives power packets in Time Division Multiplexing scheme. Since the beginning of our research project, the router has generated a power packet with a single switch. The switch ensures the simultaneity of power and information during transmission. On the other hand, the switch limits the capacities of power and information of a power packet. The proposed router ensures the simultaneity by its power packet generation method. It lets the switches operate in sync for power and information to generate a single power packet. The operation is experimentally verified. The results make it confirmed the possibility to combine the individually optimized subunits for packet generation.