US Patent Issued to Littelfuse on July 29 for "Adaptive pre-charge control for electric vehicle DC link capacitor" (American, German, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,916, issued on July 29, was assigned to Littelfuse Inc. (Chicago).

"Adaptive pre-charge control for electric vehicle DC link capacitor" was invented by Michael J. Gambuzza (Boston), Cesar Martinez (San Sebastian, Spain) and Martin Schulz (Erwitte, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptive pre-charge control circuit includes include a high-voltage switch and a control circuit. The high-voltage switch controls the flow of current between an electric battery and a DC link capacitor, the electric battery to supply power to an electric vehicle. The DC link capacitor is made up of a sum of individual input capacitors of multiple s...