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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2017
Inductive kickback protection by using multiple parallel circuit breakers with downstream tvs diodes
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventor:
William Fast, Jr., Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 3/20 (2006.01); H02H 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 3/20 (2013.01); H02H 9/044 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an apparatus including a power source and a plurality of electronic subsystems connected in parallel to the power source. Each of the plurality of electronic sub systems includes a circuit breaker, a transient-voltage-suppression (TVS) diode, and a load. The TVS diode is located downstream of the circuit breaker in each of the plurality of electronic systems.