US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on July 8 for "On-board electronic controller and on-board device control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,162, issued on July 8, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"On-board electronic controller and on-board device control method" was invented by Ryusuke Sahara (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Yoshitaka Tokunaga (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To apply an on-board electronic controller having a relay control driver circuit for performing ON/OFF control of a relay that connects and shuts off a wire from a battery. The on-board electronic controller includes: a switch circuit that is connected to an output unit of the relay control driver circuit to draw out a current; and a control circuit that activates ...