ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,202, issued on March 18, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Short circuit detection apparatus" was invented by Chiharu Morisaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A short circuit detection apparatus includes a capacitor connected to a high potential side of a semiconductor switching device via a diode and a resistor connected in series, a short circuit determination circuit that detects a terminal voltage of one terminal of the capacitor, and determines that the semiconductor switching device has short-circuited when the terminal voltage is equal to or greater than a threshold voltage, and a voltage control circu...