US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Oct. 20 for "Vehicle charging circuit with rectifier device, link capacitor and precharging/discharge circuit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,966, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG.

"Vehicle charging circuit with rectifier device, link capacitor and precharging/discharge circuit" was invented by Waldemar Heimann (Munich), Martin Gotzenberger (Munich), Walter Schrod (Munich) and Thomas Franz (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle charging circuit is equipped with a rectifier device, at least one intermediate circuit capacitor and at least one precharge/discharge circuit. The rectifier device is connected to the intermediate circuit capacitor via the precharge/discharge circuit. The precharge/discharge circuit has at least one f...