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Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025

Filed:

Jan. 18, 2022
Applicant:

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;

Inventors:

Said El-Barbari, Freising, DE;

Christian Sanabria Von Walter, Munich, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02P 3/22 (2006.01); H02P 27/06 (2006.01); B60L 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02P 27/06 (2013.01); B60L 15/007 (2013.01); B60L 2210/40 (2013.01);
Abstract

A control device for a three-phase inverter of a vehicle prime mover is configured to activate active discharge of a DC link of the inverter and at the same time to switch on the lower half-bridge switches of the inverter during the active discharge, and to switch on an upper half-bridge switch of the inverter. The three-phase inverter has three half-bridges, each having an upper half-bridge switch and a lower half-bridge switch.


Find Patent Forward Citations

El-Barbari, Said. (2025). Active discharge of the dc link capacitor of a three-phase inverter by way of rotating half-bridge short-circuits (U.S. Patent No. 12470164). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12470164

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