US Patent Issued to FUJI ELECTRIC on June 17 for "Drive device, drive method, and power conversion device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,808, issued on June 17, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Drive device, drive method, and power conversion device" was invented by Hiromu Takubo (Tokyo) and Ryoga Kiguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present disclosure, the deterioration of SiC-MOSFETs is suppressed. A drive device switches between a first SiC-MOSFET and a second SiC-MOSFET that are connected in series, with a dead time where the first SiC-MOSFET and the second SiC-MOSFET are commanded to be OFF being provided in between. This drive device includes: a first drive circuit configured to set the gate voltage of the firs...