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Patent No.:

US 12132417 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2024

Filed:

May. 16, 2022

Gate control circuitry for automotive variable voltage converter

Applicant:

Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);

Inventors:

Baoming Ge, Okemos, MI (US);

Lihua Chen, Farmington Hills, MI (US);

Serdar Hakki Yonak, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Boris Curuvija, West Bloomfield, MI (US);

Assignee:

FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Attorneys:

David B. Kelley

Brooks Kushman P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Said Bouziane

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 7/797 (2006.01); B60K 6/26 (2007.10); B60L 53/20 (2019.01); H02J 7/24 (2006.01); H02M 1/08 (2006.01); H02P 27/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 7/797 (2013.01); B60L 53/20 (2019.02); H02M 1/08 (2013.01); H02P 27/08 (2013.01); B60K 6/26 (2013.01); H02J 7/2434 (2020.01);
Abstract

A power converter includes a pair of series connected switches and circuitry. The circuitry includes another switch and an optocoupler that activates responsive to changes in current through one of the series connected switches exceeding a predefined threshold. Activation of the optocoupler causes the another switch to conduct and reduce a gate voltage of the one of the series connected switches to reduce the changes in current through the one of the series connected switches.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Ge, Baoming. (2024). Gate control circuitry for automotive variable voltage converter (U.S. Patent No. 12132417). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12132417

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