US Patent Issued to BorgWarner US Technologies on June 2 for "Systems and methods for bulk capacitor pre-charge using silicon controlled rectifier for battery charger for electric vehicle" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,950, issued on June 2, was assigned to BorgWarner US Technologies LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for bulk capacitor pre-charge using silicon controlled rectifier for battery charger for electric vehicle" was invented by Sunil Sreedhar (Westfield, Ind.), Alexandre M. S. Reis (Westfield, Ind.) and Sean Daniel Harrison-Nayes (Faversham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes: a battery charger to convert AC power to DC power to charge a battery, wherein the battery charger includes: an upper switch to condition an input voltage and input current; a lower switch to condition the input voltage and the ...