US Patent Issued on May 19 for "Series capacitor buck converter with precharge circuit" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,831, issued on May 19.

"Series capacitor buck converter with precharge circuit" was invented by Chonghui Dai (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a series capacitor buck converter with a precharge circuit. The converter includes a switch device unit, a series capacitor, an output inductor, a switch control unit, and a capacitor precharge circuit, etc. The switch control unit is configured to control the switch on and off of a switch unit in the power conversion unit to achieve power conversion; the capacitor precharge circuit includes a capacitor voltage detection circuit configured to detect a voltage at both ends of...