Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dynamic short circuit protection
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Application No.: US15917476Application Date: 2018-03-09
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Publication No.: US11115019B2Publication Date: 2021-09-07
- Inventor: Xi Lu , Chingchi Chen
- Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: Brooks Kushman P.C.
- Agent David B. Kelley
- Main IPC: H02H7/00
- IPC: H02H7/00 ; H03K17/082 ; H03K5/24

Abstract:
Circuitry includes a pair of switches arranged in series, and a gate driver. The gate driver, responsive to a magnitude of current through one of the switches exceeding a threshold, discharges a gate of the one through a first resistor. The gate driver also, responsive to a voltage across a parasitic inductance of the switch becoming zero, discharges the gate through a second resistor but not the first resistor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190280686A1 DYNAMIC SHORT CIRCUIT PROTECTION Public/Granted day:2019-09-12
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