H02M 7/4837
Flying capacitor converters
Official title: {Flying capacitor converters}
H02M7/4837 (Flying capacitor converters) appears on 545 US grants and 667 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H02M- Granted patents
- 545
- Published applications
- 667
- Assignees
- 231
- Inventors
- 1,132
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 54 | 67 |
| 2025 | 62 | 70 |
| 2026 | 37 | 54 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Configurable control for two-level and three-level buck converters6 Oct 2026US 12,756,291 B2Renesas Electronics America Inc.
- Flying capacitor balancing for multi-level voltage converter15 Sep 2026US 12,738,840 B2Renesas Electronics America Inc.
- Multi-level power converter with flyback capacitor pre-charge1 Sep 2026US 12,726,135 B2Infineon Technologies Austria AG
- Signal amplifier25 Aug 2026US 12,719,421 B2Renesas Design (UK) Limited
- Electronic device comprising charging circuit18 Aug 2026US 12,712,396 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Multi-level structures and methods for switched-mode power supplies8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312495 A1Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Startup procedure for flying capacitor multi-level (fcml) converter24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291403 A1Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Control of hysteretic current mode multilevel buck converter17 Sep 2026US 2026/0280428 A1Renesas Electronics America Inc.
- Apparatus for controlling flying capacitor voltage of direct-current to direct-current converter and control method therefor30 Jul 2026US 2026/0221872 A1Ls Electric Co., Ltd.
- Power converter integrated circuit30 Jul 2026US 2026/0221875 A1Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Switched capacitor converters164US 7,696,735 B2Intel Corporation · 2010
- Non-isolated bus converters with voltage divider topology113US 7,746,041 B2Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. · 2010
- Electronic device for electrical energy conversion between a voltage source and a current source by means of controllable switching cells102US 5,737,201 A1998
- DC-DC converter with modular stages71US 8,860,396 B2Arctic Sand Technologies, Inc. · 2014
- Multilevel converter based intelligent universal transformer61US 7,050,311 B2Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. · 2006