ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,481, issued on April 15, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Power converter" was invented by Ryota Kitamura (Tokyo) and Masafumi Ichihara (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter including transistors, a converter controller, and a functional safety controller that outputs a gate drive allowing signal. Further, there is shutoff circuitry that outputs a result of a logical conjunction using the gate pulse and the gate drive allowing signal as a drive signal, gate drive circuitry that outputs a gate signal on the basis of the drive signal, and a current detector that detects current flowing through a phas...