ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,023, issued on April 8, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Active snubber circuit and buck converter" was invented by Keisuke Kanda (Susono, Japan) and Koichi Ushitani (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active snubber circuit is connected to a buck converter and decreases a first surge voltage and a second surge voltage generated by the buck converter. The active snubber circuit includes a first FET switch connected to the output point of the first surge voltage and a first power storage element, a second FET switch connected to the output point of the second surge voltage and a second power storage element, an indu...