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History

Monday, June 1st, 2009

PwrCon, Inc.  was opened in June of 2001 as a Consulting and Engineering Laboratory specializing in Power Electronics R&D. The group is led by Jim Wadlington, formerly the Chief Technical Officer of Lucent Technologies Power Systems Division. Jim has over 30 years experience in the field of Power Electronics at Bell Labs. The engineering staff at Pwrcon, Inc.  are also former members of Bell Labs and are highly skilled and experienced.

Patents

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

PwrCon Innovation

A hallmark of PwrCon engineering is the innovation contained in the products developed.

Listed below are some of the patents issued to PwrCon engineers:

  • “Heatsink Having Standoff Buttons and a Method of Manufacture Therefore”
  • “Method of Manufacture Multilayer Circuit Package”
  • “Electric Circuit Card Having a Doughnut Shaped Land”
  • “Planar Transformer and Method of Manufacture”
  • “Electrical and/or Thermal Interconnections and Methods for Obtaining Such”
  • “Magnetoresistive Current Sensor Having High Sensitivity”
  • “Method and Network for Enhancing Power Factor of Off-Line Switching Circuit”
  • “Single Conversion Power Factor Using SEPIC Converter”
  • “Electronic Ringing Signal Generator”
  • “Low Profile Surface Mounted Magnetic Devices and Components Therefore”
  • “Over-Current Protection Circuit Utilizing Peak Detection Circuit with Variable Dynamic Response”
  • “Sampling Circuit”
  • “Board Mountable Power Supply Module with Multi-Function Control Pin”
  • “Modular Power Supply Having an Input and Output Module and Method of Operation Thereof”
  • “Circuit for Controlling the Switching Times of Inverting Switching Devices”
  • “Regulator to Control Tracking of Dual Output Converter”