US Patent Issued to ABB SCHWEIZ on Oct. 27 for "Arrangement for current sharing of parallel-connected converters" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,725, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Arrangement for current sharing of parallel-connected converters" was invented by Tero Viitanen (Helsinki), Veli-Matti Leppanen (Helsinki) and Peter Muszynski (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Current sharing between the plurality of parallel-connected ARCP or hard-switching converter legs is balanced by a control arrangement. The control arrangement senses a leg output current in each of the parallel-connected converter legs and have an individual autonomous leg-specific switching instant adjustment for the main switches of each of the parallel-conn...