ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,923, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Hiroshi Nakano (Tokyo), Nobuyasu Kanekawa (Tokyo) and Takao Fukuda (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device using a semiconductor fuse, and enabling an increase in size of the semiconductor fuse to be suppressed and the occurrence of an abnormal current to be detected early to enable shut off of the abnormal current. The vehicle control device includes a shut-off unit that supplies and shuts off a supply of power to a plurality of load devices; a current detector that detects a curr...