US Patent Issued to Gree Electric Appliances Inc. of Zhuhai on May 20 for "Soft start circuit and power supply circuit" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,752, issued on May 20, was assigned to Gree Electric Appliances Inc. of Zhuhai (Guangdong, China).

"Soft start circuit and power supply circuit" was invented by Qigui Hu (Guangdong, China), Ke Yuan (Guangdong, China), Weijin Li (Guangdong, China) and Xueyun Zheng (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a soft start circuit and a power supply circuit. The soft start circuit is disposed between a negative electrode of a direct current bus capacitor and a negative terminal of a direct current power supply, so as to control, after a start begins, according to the current input by the direct curren...