Patent ID: 7825536

Claim:
A power system common power source subsystem comprising: a power source unregulated bus; a plurality of power source regulated buses, each respective power source regulated bus originating at a common power source and terminating at a respective one of k load subsystems, each respective power source regulated bus directly coupling only the common power source and the respective one of the k load subsystems without coupling to any other of the k load subsystems; for each respective one of the k load subsystems, a plurality of direct independent electrical interconnections between the respective one of the k load subsystems and each other one of the k load subsystems, each direct independent electrical interconnection comprising one or more conductors, wherein each direct independent electrical interconnection originates at the respective one of the k load subsystems and terminates at one other of the k load subsystems without coupling to any other of the k load subsystems, such that there is no more than a single direct independent electrical interconnection between any two of the k load subsystems and such that the total number of the plurality of direct independent electrical interconnections between all of the k load subsystems comprises no more than k*[(k−1)/2] direct, independent electrical interconnections; at least one power source, each of said at least one power source having an output; a first group of at least one switch, each of said first group of at least one switch coupling a respective one of said at least one power source output to said power source unregulated bus; at least one regulator, each of said at least one regulator having an input and an output; a second group of at least one switch, each of said second group of at least one switch coupling a respective input of said at least one regulator to said power source unregulated bus; and a third group of at least one switch, each of said third group of at least one switch coupling a respective one of said at least one regulator output to said power source regulated bus; a controller having a plurality of outputs, at least one of said plurality of outputs coupled to at least one of said first group of at least one switch, at least one of said plurality of outputs coupled to at least one of said second group of at least one switch, and at least one of said plurality of outputs coupled to at least one of said third group of at least one switch; and at least one sensor, each of said at least one sensor having an output coupled to said controller.