Patents by Inventor Phillip A. Board

Phillip A. Board has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5426579
    Abstract: Instabilities in the output voltage provided from an AC power supply system connected to a power factor correcting load are suppressed by a stabilizer which is connected across the output lines from the power supply system to the load. The stabilizing apparatus includes a rectifier having AC input nodes connected to the power supply system output lines, and DC output nodes at which DC voltage appears. A capacitor and resistor are connected in parallel across the output nodes of the rectifier. During normal operation, where the peak AC voltage from the power supply system is substantially constant, the capacitor charges up to a voltage level near the zero to peak value of the AC voltage waveform, with the charge on the capacitor slowly dissipated through the parallel resistor at a rate that does not substantially dissipate the charge between peaks of the AC voltage waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1995
    Assignee: Best Power Technology, Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven J. Paul, Phillip A. Board, Michael W. Hogan