US Patent Issued to AMPERE, NISSAN MOTOR on Dec. 2 for "Flying capacitor device and method for preloading the capacitors of such a device" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,376, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Kangawa, Japan).

"Flying capacitor device and method for preloading the capacitors of such a device" was invented by Serge Loudot (Guyancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flying capacitor device, such as an inverter arm or a boost converter, includes a plurality of N switching cells which are nested in one another and a balancing circuit which is adapted to have a resonant frequency equal to the switching frequency of the transistors. The balancing circuit is connected, on the one hand, at a midpoint and at a term...