ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,348, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Power conversion device and control method" was invented by Takayoshi Tawaragi (Kyoto, Japan), Takanori Ishii (Kyoto, Japan) and Aya Murata (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller in a power conversion unit increases or decreases, based on a detected voltage value of a first flying capacitor, a value of a gate voltage to be applied to a gate terminal of a target switch to be controlled selectively from first to fourth switches in a first capacitor circuit to cause conduction between a drain terminal and a source terminal of the target switch, or ch...