ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,358, issued on July 8, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Control circuit and switching power source" was invented by Hiroshi Maruyama (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a control circuit for controlling an ON period and an OFF period in a switching cycle of a switching element configured to perform switching control of a principal current flowing through a transformer of a switching power source, and performing control to turn off the switching element when an overcurrent is detected after an elapse of an invalidation period in the switching cycle and to set a period in which the swit...