Awards & Patents

VPT's engineering leaders are luminaries in the field, receiving numerous patents and awards. Put VPT's award-winning power innovations to work for you.

Awards

L-3 Communications
West, “Supplier Excellence Award, Platinum Level,” 2011

Raytheon Airborne and Space Systems
“3-Star Supplier Excellence Award,” 2010

ITT
“Supplier Excellence Award,” 2009

MDA
“Prompt Dose Radiation Hardened Point-of-Load Power Converter”, 2008

NASA
“Modular Power System Configured with Standard Product Hybrid DC-DC Converters”, 2005

Air Force
“Parallel-Connected Converters with Innovative Control”, 2003.

Outstanding Achievement Award
"Space qualified, high efficiency, high current, modular power converter using multi-layer high density packaging," U.S. Department of Defense SBIR (Phase II) Efforts, Commonwealth of Virginia, 2000

Air Force
“Space Qualified, High Efficiency, High Current Modular Power Converter”, 1999.

NASA Glenn Research Center
“High Density DC/DC Converter Modules for Satellite Applications Using Multi-Layer Hybrid Packaging.” 1998

Phase II Award
"High Density DC-DC Converter Modules for Satellite Applications using Multilayer Hybrid Packaging," NASA Small Business Innovation Research Program, 1999

Outstanding Achievement Award
"High Density DC-DC Converter Modules for Satellite Application using Multilayer Hybrid Packaging," NASA SBIR (Phase II) Efforts, Commonwealth of Virginia, 1999

Kirtland Air Force Base
A Gallium Arsenide Synchronous Rectifier-based Low Voltage Power Converter for High Radiation Environments”, 1997

Outstanding Achievement Award
"Variable Frequency AC Motor Controller Using MCTs," U.S. Department of Defense SBIR (Phase II) Efforts, Commonwealth of Virginia, 1997

DARPA
“Variable Frequency AC Motor Controller using MCTs”, 1996.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
“High Efficiency, High Density, Card-Mounted Low Voltage Power Supply”, 1995

Phase I Award
"An Automated System for the Design of Common-and-Differential Mode Power Line Filters Satisfying Both EMI and System Stability Requirements," NASA Small Business Technology Transfer Program, 1995


Patents

D.G. Corrington, S.D. Hawkins and D.M. Sable
"Apparatus and Method for Effecting a Key Change via a Cryptographically Protected Link," US#4,688,250

D.M. Sable
"Dual-Mode, Current-Injection-Controlled Pulse Width Modulator", US#4,884,183

G. Hua, X. Zhuang, and D.M. Sable
"Half Bridge DC-DC Converter with Low Output Current Ripple," US#5,999,433

W. Chen, S. Butler, and D.M. Sable
"A Power Converter with circuits for Providing Improved Gate Driving," US#5,963,438

M. Chen
"Bi-directional Magnetic Isolator", US#5,963,438

...and more than 20 other patents for power supply innovations.