ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,634, issued on May 20, was assigned to ANPEC ELECTRONICS Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Motor driver circuit having reverse current detection mechanism" was invented by Kun-Min Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor driver circuit having a reverse current detection mechanism is provided. The motor driver circuit includes a reverse current detector circuit, a control circuit, a driver circuit and an output stage circuit. The reverse current detector circuit detects a current flowing through a motor within a preset time interval to output a current detected signal. The control circuit determines whether or not the dete...