US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on June 24 for "Electronic control device for power conversion, and power supply IC" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,420, issued on June 24, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Electronic control device for power conversion, and power supply IC" was invented by Mitsuhiro Iwasaki (Hitachinaka, Japan), Masahiro Doi (Hitachinaka, Japan), Takeo Yamashita (Hitachinaka, Japan), Hitomi Aoyama (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Shinichirou Hida (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic control device for power conversion having an integrated safety function and improved reliability includes: a power module for converting DC power into AC power and supply the AC power to a motor; a gate driver for controlling the power module...