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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2011
Applicant:
Joseph Urienza, Milpitas, CA (US);
Inventor:
Joseph Urienza, Milpitas, CA (US);
Assignee:
Monolithic Power Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present disclosure discloses an EMI capacitor discharger with an active capacitor bleeder which monitors a utility AC source and detects the zero crossing of the utility AC source. When a prolonged period of no zero crossing occurred, the EMI capacitor discharger activates a discharging circuit.