Patent ID: 9298241
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: G06F,H02J

Claim Text:
1. A method of operating a redundant path power subsystem serving an electrical load, the method comprising: sending control signals from a microprocessor and a plurality of power supplies through one of a plurality of multiplexing logic devices to a plurality of phase controllers; the plurality of phase controllers controlling output to the electrical load from a plurality of phase regulators in accordance with the control signals; detecting a failure in any one of the plurality of multiplexing logic devices and the plurality of phase controllers; adjusting, by active ones of the plurality of phase controllers, output of corresponding ones of the plurality of phase regulators to accommodate the failure and continue serving the electrical load if the failure is one of the plurality of phase controllers; and disabling one of the plurality of multiplexing logic devices if the failure is the one of the plurality of multiplexing logic devices.