ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,239, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Honeywell Aerospace US LLC (Phoenix).
"Active pre-charge circuit for avionics LRUs" was invented by Martin Kovarik (Brno, Czech Republic), Ludek Handlir (Brno, Czech Republic) and Roman Kostka (Brno, Czech Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrical circuits and systems are provided for line replaceable units (LRUs) having an inductor shared between an electromagnetic interference (EMI) filtering stage and an inrush current limiting active pre-charge circuit. An exemplary circuit includes a first bus reference voltage node, a second bus reference voltage node, a switching element coupled...