US Patent Issued to DANFOSS POWER ELECTRONICS on May 19 for "Method for providing thermal protection to a pre-charge unit and electric power conversion system for executing the method" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,735, issued on May 19, was assigned to DANFOSS POWER ELECTRONICS A/S (Grasten, Denmark).

"Method for providing thermal protection to a pre-charge unit and electric power conversion system for executing the method" was invented by Zhi Gao (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Stefan Schroeder (Munich), Markus Sjoblom (Holly Springs, N.C.) and Kenneth Dean (Ooltewah, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing thermal protection for a pre-charge unit (PRC) in an electric power conversion system, such as a medium-voltage adjustable-speed drive with a step-up transformer and DC link. The method includes identifying the electrical and therm...