A power distribution system includes a plurality of power sources and load transfer units including transistors and diodes connected in series and leading to a common power output, each of the transistors being controller switchable subject to voltage levels of the respective input and output sides of said transistors, and the voltage and current level of said common power output. The system is part of an interconnection scheme in which all but one of the power sources is connected to a single load transfer unit, enabling the survival of at least a single power source with the failure of one of the load transfer units.

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Electric power distribution and load transfer system

A non-volatile memory system includes an SRAM and a backup store of E2 PROMs. In the event of a short duration power interruption, the memory system enters a hold mode in which data maintenance power is supplied to the SRAM by discharging a backup capacitor, and accessing of the SRAM by a host computer is halted. If the backup capacitor voltage does not fall below a threshold before power is restored, the hold mode is terminated and accessing by the host computer continues. If the backup capacitor voltage falls below the threshold, operating power is supplied to the SRAM, E2 PROM, and associated circuitry to download all data and row and column parity data into the E2 PROM by further discharging of the backup capacitor. Row parity and column parity information are accumulated by a bit-per-chip accumulation technique that allows convenient error correction on a "per chip" basis. Data is encrypted and decrypted on the basis of a fully erasable magnetic key.

Non-volatile semiconductor memory with SCRAM hold cycle prior to SCRAM-to-E2 PROM backup transfer

A device for containing sensitive data including a housing, an anti-tamper protected enclosure located within the housing and being adapted to contain the sensitive data, anti-tamper protection circuitry located within the anti-tamper protected enclosure and at least one ball grid array arranged within the housing and mounted on an outer surface of the anti-tamper protected enclosure and electrically coupled to the anti-tamper protection circuitry for protecting against unauthorized access to the interior of the anti-tamper protected enclosure.

Anti-tamper protected enclosure

An energy management system for optimizing low power and short term high power states of a power supply system. A significant feature of the present invention relates to a design of a power supply apparatus based on internal resistances of the power supply components. In an exemplary embodiment, the power supply supplies power for driving a load. The power supply includes a power source having a first internal resistance and includes a capacitor connected in parallel with the power supply and having a second internal resistance. The first internal resistance and the second internal resistance have a predetermined relationship.

Systems and methods for managing energy of electric power supply systems

A motor vehicle power supply device includes an alternator drivable by an engine mounted on a motor vehicle, a battery chargeable by electric energy generated by the alternator, a capacitor connected to the alternator and the battery, and a charging speed varying circuit arrangement connected between the capacitor, and the alternator and the battery, for varying the speed at which the capacitor is charged. The charging speed varying circuit arrangement is controlled to vary the speed at which the capacitor is charged, depending on the operating condition of the motor vehicle.

Motor vehicle power supply device

Herein disclosed is an improved d-c power supply system which comprises a d-c power source, a first rectifier serially connected to the power source, and series connection composed of a protective resistor and a back-up capacitor, the series connection being connected across the first rectifier and the power source, and the protective resistor being bypassed by a second rectifier so that a discharge current from the back-up capacitor flows through the second rectifier. The power supply system further comprises means for producing information signals representing condition of the back-up capacitor.

Electric power supply system using back-up capacitor

A device for detecting faults such as burning-out, earthing, short-circuiting taking place in each of a plurality of fundamental elements in an electric network in which said fundamental elements each constituting at least one kind of circuit element such as a resistor are connected in series or in parallel to each other, said device being provided with a bridge circuit connected between two equipotential points a and b, and other two equipotential points c and d in the network, and with a comparator connected between two equipotential points in the bridge circuit to thereby detect an unbalanced load produced from the bridge circuit.

Shizuhisa Watanabe

Papers

Electric power supply system using back-up capacitor

Device having a bridge circuit for detecting faults in an electric network

Electric power supply system

Elektrisches energiezufuhrsystem mit einem schutzkondensator