US Patent Issued to AISIN on Nov. 4 for "Dimming device and dimming method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,406, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Dimming device and dimming method" was invented by Yusuke Shiratori (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dimming device for controlling a dimming rate of a dimming member includes a DC/AC inverter to convert a direct-current voltage into an alternating-current voltage requiring a predetermined period and amplitude; and an inverter drive unit to drive the DC/AC inverter based on an opening and closing control signal. The inverter drive unit includes a command value generation unit to generate an opening and closing command value for controlling an opening a...