US Patent Issued to FUJI ELECTRIC on Sept. 9 for "Drive circuit of switching element and intelligent power module" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,220, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Drive circuit of switching element and intelligent power module" was invented by Eiji Kurosawa (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate drive circuit, in order to cause an IGBT in a semiconductor elements to switch to the ON state according to the signal level of an input signal, includes a constant current supply unit configured to supply constant current to the gate of the IGBT, a switching signal input terminal to which a switching signal is input, a signal level determination unit configured to determine a signal level of the switching...