US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Dec. 2 for "Gate drive circuit and power conversion device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,352, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Gate drive circuit and power conversion device" was invented by Shinya Kurachi (Tokyo), Takayoshi Miki (Tokyo) and Shota Morisaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate drive circuit includes a resistor, a current detector that detects a current flowing through the resistor, and a gate driver. The gate driver applies an electric signal between a gate terminal and a source terminal of a module to drive a switching semiconductor element. One end of the resistor is connected to a drain terminal, the opposite end of the resistor is connected to one end of the...