H03K 17/163
Soft switching
Official title: {Soft switching}
H03K17/163 (Soft switching) appears on 1,159 US grants and 974 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H03K- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
- 455
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 57 | 46 |
| 2026 | 37 | 30 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Efficient switching circuit6 Oct 2026US 12,756,384 B2Solaredge Technologies Ltd.
- Asymmetric power module6 Oct 2026US 12,756,387 B2Infineon Technologies AG
- Main-auxiliary field-effect transistor configurations25 Aug 2026US 12,719,470 B2Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
- Switching circuit and power converter18 Aug 2026US 12,712,445 B2OMRON Corporation
- Gate driving device and power converter11 Aug 2026US 12,706,526 B2Rohm Co., Ltd.
- Electronic circuitry, power converter, and driving method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291371 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- System and method for automated dynamic characterization of hybrid switches and busbar for use therewith17 Sep 2026US 2026/0280555 A1STMicroelectronics International N. V.
- High voltage hot-swap control20 Aug 2026US 2026/0246268 A1Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.
- Gate driver circuits with programmable performance characteristics6 Aug 2026US 2026/0230072 A1ABB Schweiz AG
- Driver chip, semiconductor package and method for driving a pow-er transistor23 Jul 2026US 2026/0213745 A1Infineon Technologies Austria AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Inverter device and air conditioner including the same505US 8,884,560 B2Mitsubishi Electric Corporation · 2014
- Level shifter249US 6,037,720 APhilips Electronics North America Corporation · 2000
- Adjustable output driver circuit having parallel pull-up and pull-down elements190US 5,838,177 AMicron Technology, Inc. · 1998
- Adjustable output driver circuit123US 5,917,758 AMicron Technology, Inc. · 1999
- Circuitry and method for controlling current in an electronic circuit107US 5,220,208 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1993