US Patent Issued to Vitesco Technologies on Oct. 21 for "High-voltage charging circuit in a vehicle, and on-board vehicle electrical system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,839, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Vitesco Technologies GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"High-voltage charging circuit in a vehicle, and on-board vehicle electrical system" was invented by Franz Pfeilschifter (Wenzenbach, Germany) and Martin Gotzenberger (Ingolstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-based high-voltage charging circuit is provided with an AC voltage terminal, at least two galvanically isolating DC-DC converters designed as step-up converters and a rectifier via which the DC-DC converters are connected to the AC voltage terminal, and a changeover switch. The charging circuit has a first and a second DC...