ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,160, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Co. Ltd. (Samutprakarn, Thailand).
"Lifetime estimation of electrolytic capacitors" was invented by Christian Krumpholz (Teningen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The device to estimate the lifetime consumption of one or more electrolytic capacitors comprises a temperature sensor which is thermally insulated from the ambient by being arranged either between two equal electrolytic capacitors connected in parallel with each other or on the case of an electrolytic capacitors and where it is covered with a layer of thermally insulating material. The devi...