US Patent Issued to DIODES on Nov. 4 for "Power factor correction converter and operation method thereof" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,529, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DIODES Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Power factor correction converter and operation method thereof" was invented by Haoming Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Yi-Chun Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Koyen Lee (Taipei, Taiwan) and Feng-Jung Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power factor correction (PFC) converter comprises an inductor, a main switch, a voltage divider, a diode, and a controller. The main switch controls the inductor performing magnetization and demagnetization, wherein a voltage difference between two ends of the main switch is a switch voltage. The voltage divider divides the switch ...