US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on June 17 for "DC-DC converter that converts direct current into another direct current" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,829, issued on June 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"DC-DC converter that converts direct current into another direct current" was invented by Koichi Tsuno (Wako, Japan), Toshio Inoue (Wako, Japan) and Ryo Oshima (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit includes a first mode for thinning out pulses of a drive signal according to an input current, a hybrid mode combining pulse width control that controls a pulse width of the drive signal and intermittent control that thins out pulses of the drive signal, and a second mode for thinning out the pulses according to an output voltage. The control cir...