US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Electrical circuit arrangement and method for detecting a short circuit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,203, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Electrical circuit arrangement and method for detecting a short circuit" was invented by Joachim Hemmer (ScheBlitz, Germany) and Julian Breiter (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an electrical circuit arrangement comprising an inverter and a measuring device designed to identify a short circuit between a conductor and a shielding in a circuit, which is connected or connectable to the inverter. The shielding is connected capacitively to a ground of the inverter, and a pulsed voltage i...