ACTIVE DISCHARGE OF A VEHICLE INTERMEDIATE CIRCUIT ELEMENT USING A DISCRETE PWM PULSE-GENERATING DISCHARGE CIRCUIT

An active discharge circuit for a vehicle discharge device for discharging a vehicle intermediate circuit, includes a connector for connection to an intermediate circuit element of the vehicle intermediate circuit; a circuit arrangement parallel-connected to the connector and having a discharge element and a switching element, the switching element being designed to electrically contact the discharge element to the connector in a closed switching state and not to electrically contact the discharge element to the connector in an open switching state; and a discrete discharge circuit being designed to adjust the switching states in the switching element by pulse width modulation during discharging of the at least one intermediate circuit element.