US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on Oct. 20 for "Dimmers with an improved gate driver circuit" (Czech, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,353, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Dimmers with an improved gate driver circuit" was invented by Martin Hampl (Mohelnice, Czech Republic), Justin Franke (Sharpsburg, Ga.), Hoon Lee (Sugar Hill, Ga.) and Nilesh Kadam (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dimmer includes a TRIAC structured to conduct load current during an on phase and not conduct the load current during an off phase; a snubber circuit including a resistor and a capacitor electrically connected to the resistor at a node; and a bidirectional switch structured to transmit a gate current pulse to gate of the TRIAC to sw...