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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2005
Raghothama Reddy, Mesquite, TX (US);
Karim Wassef, Murphy, TX (US);
Raghothama Reddy, Mesquite, TX (US);
Karim Wassef, Murphy, TX (US);
Lineage Power Corporation, Mesquite, TX (US);
Abstract
For use in a power converter having parallel power trains, a circuit for, and method of, reducing voltage spikes due to magnetizing current imbalances in the power trains and a power converter incorporating the circuit or the method. In one embodiment, the circuit includes: (1) a conductive bypass path coupling nodes between transformer secondary windings and inductors in each of the power trains and configured to provide an alternative path to redirect magnetizing current imbalances from the inductors and (2) a capacitor located in the conductive bypass path.