US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Oct. 21 for "Load drive device and method for controlling electronic control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,281, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Load drive device and method for controlling electronic control device" was invented by Yasuo Shima (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Yoichiro Kobayashi (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load drive device that drives and controls an inductive load based on a PWM signal from a microcomputer is provided, and the load drive device has excellent reliability and responsiveness capable of quickly detecting disconnection of the inductive load. The load drive device includes a microcomputer and a driver circuit that drives an inductive load by a puls...