US Patent Issued to InventChip Technology on July 15 for "Pre-charge apparatus and control method" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,380, issued on July 15, was assigned to InventChip Technology Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Pre-charge apparatus and control method" was invented by Zhong Ye (Plano, Texas) and Yi Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a power converter configured to provide a constant current charge to a capacitor coupled to a high voltage bus through a mechanical contact, an isolation interface configured to receive a pre-charge signal on a primary side of the isolation interface, and convert the pre-charge signal into a bias voltage signal and a control command signal on a secondary side of the isolation interface, and based o...