US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on May 27 for "Load driving device and diagnostic method for load driving device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,308, issued on May 27, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Load driving device and diagnostic method for load driving device" was invented by Yuta Mifune (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Koichi Tsukio (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-performance and highly reliable load driving device is provided that can quickly charge an ESD protection capacitor even at the time of load disconnection and complete all diagnoses of the driving system driver within a required time in a load driving device including a diagnosis circuit of a driving system driver and an ESD protection capacitor. A load driving dev...