US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on June 23 for "Converter with hold-up circuit and inrush-control circuit" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,490, issued on June 23, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Converter with hold-up circuit and inrush-control circuit" was invented by Wei Song (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holdup circuit includes a high-voltage generation circuit that outputs a high voltage and a holdup capacitor charging/discharging circuit that includes a holdup capacitor that is charged by the high voltage output by the high-voltage generation circuit. An inrush control circuit includes a constant-current source that includes a first transistor and a second transistor. During start-up, input current flows through...