US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Active discharge of a vehicle intermediate circuit element using a discrete PWM pulse-generating discharge circuit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,347, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Active discharge of a vehicle intermediate circuit element using a discrete PWM pulse-generating discharge circuit" was invented by Daniel Eckstein (Achern, Germany), Patrick Augustin (Buhl, Germany) and Fabian Bogner (Oberkirch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active discharge circuit for a vehicle discharge device; for discharging a vehicle intermediate circuit, includes a connector for connection to an intermediate circuit element of the vehicle intermediate circuit; a circuit arrangement parallel-connected to the conn...