US Patent Issued on July 7 for "Power converter with dark start precharge circuit" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,567, issued on July 7.

"Power converter with dark start precharge circuit" was invented by Hamidreza Esmaeilian (Ottawa), Olivier Raymond-Dubois (Montreal, Canada) and Ernest Montllo Casabayo (Montreal, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a bidirectional power converter comprising dark start precharge circuit capable of receiving low-voltage DC power and boosting it to the target voltage specified by charge data of a BMS associated with an EV battery. Dark start precharge circuit allows to further establish a power connection with the EV and draw DC power from the EV battery to supply power to electri...