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Current Articles
 flow90 - The power module of choice for 90-degree mounting from Vincotech Press Release | Vincotech GmbH | Monday, April 02, 2012 March 30th 2012 - Vincotech offers a wide range of power modules, one line of which is the perfect match for book-sized inverters and 19-inch rack-mounted power supplies with a 90-degree angle between the heat-sink and PCB. Called flow90 and featuring pins arrayed at a 90-degree angle, these modules... Power modules without a baseplate: A reliable and cost-effective solution from Vincotech Press Release | Vincotech GmbH | Tuesday, March 06, 2012 March 6th 2012 - Power modules serve a wide and diverse range of purposes. For some applications, power density is a key factor. For others, efficiency or price may be the sticking point. But for all applications, reliability is a top priority. Modules with solid baseplates made of copper or alu... The Design Concept behind Vincotech Power Modules Press Release | Vincotech GmbH | Friday, February 17, 2012 February 17th 2012 - Vincotech produces highly efficient power modules with various housings designed for a wide range of power and other applications. The offering extends beyond standard motor drive topologies such as CIB / PIM, PACK, and half-bridge modules to encompass products designed specific... New Power Semiconductor Module from Vincotech Combines MNPC Topology with SiC Switches Press Release | Vincotech GmbH | Friday, January 20, 2012 January 19th 2012 - Efficiency is becoming increasingly important in power electronics. Many applications are driven by the initiatives for reduced energy consumption. The technology leaders are inverter applications in the solar market, but also uninterruptible power supplies have new targets for i... Symmetrical Boost Concept for Solar Applications up to 1000V - an Article by Vincotech Press Release | Vincotech GmbH | Wednesday, November 23, 2011 November 21st 2011 - In a transformer-less solar inverter application the symmetry of split supply DC voltages with ground is an important issue. The concept described in this article shows the handling of both the input and the output asymmetry in an MPP booster circuit. There are two different... Increasing the efficiency of an IPM-based drive design with Vincotech's new flowIPM-1B module Press Release | Vincotech GmbH | Thursday, November 03, 2011 October 28th 2011 - The ubiquitous Intelligent Power Module, aka IPM, has been a mainstay in motor speed control designs. And with good reason: Such designs are relatively easy and cheap to implement. With onboard gate drivers, protection, and a six pack IGBT array integrated, it takes very little e... Vincotech Paper Discusses the Advantages of Power Modules Compared to Discrete Solutions Press Release | Vincotech GmbH | Sunday, October 02, 2011 September 29th 2011 - With the strong upsurge in the need for power electronics in applications such as solar, wind, industrial drives and UPS, system developers are becoming increasingly aware that the selection of the power devices for these often remotely-sited applications is critical. Such syst... Design Concept for Transformer-less Solar Inverter Press Release | Vincotech GmbH | Wednesday, August 17, 2011 August 16th 2011 - Vincotech is able to offer a wide spectrum of power modules for solar applications. The announced technical paper provides application support information for transformer-less single phase solar inverter applications. It discusses different output filter configurations, like dua... Power modules for fast switching motor drive applications Press Release | Vincotech GmbH | Friday, July 22, 2011 July 21st 2011 - Most of the current high power semiconductors are optimized for switching frequencies between 4 and 8 kHz. Today, however, more and more applications require frequencies of 10 kHz and higher. New power modules specifically designed for higher frequencies can now fill that gap. F... Intelligent Power Modules for Motor drive applications Press Release | Vincotech GmbH | Monday, May 30, 2011 May 27th 2011 - Power electronics for application embedded motor drives need to be compact and to have good thermal characteristics. Different IPM (intelligent power module) concepts are competing with different sets of features to be the best solution.Higher integration and more complex subsyst... Press-fit pins for solder-less assembly of power modules Press Release | Vincotech GmbH | Wednesday, May 11, 2011 May 11th 2011 - Solder pins have been the interface of choice for power modules for many years.In this day and age, when cost saving very often leads to compromises in quality, Vincotech's new Press-fit technology goes against the trend. The new Press-fit pin takes the assembly properties of Vincote... Power Modules with Additional Low Inductive Current Path Press Release | Vincotech GmbH | Friday, May 06, 2011 May 6th 2011 - Parasitic inductances are a major problem with power modules, in particular in fast switching applications. The parasitic inductance of the component interconnections causes an overvoltage condition and increases the switch-off losses in the semiconductor. Many initiatives have been i... Increasing Motor Efficiency with Power Modules using Power Factor Control Press Release | Vincotech GmbH | Monday, April 18, 2011 April 18th 2011 - Electric motors account for 65 to 70 percent of industrial electrical energy consumption and approximately 57 percent of all electrical consumption worldwide. Therefore, Electronic designers of are now looking into maximizing the energy efficiency of a motor drive application using... Advantages of NPC inverter topologies with power modules Press Release | Vincotech GmbH | Wednesday, March 30, 2011 March 30th 2011 - Efficiency is becoming increasingly important in power electronics. Many applications are driven by the initiatives for reduced energy consumption. The technology leaders are inverter applications in the solar market, but also uninterruptible power supplies and motor drives have ne...
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