US Patent Issued to OMRON on July 15 for "Power conversion device, and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,680, issued on July 15, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Power conversion device, and control method" was invented by Aya Murata (Kyoto, Japan), Takanori Ishii (Kyoto, Japan) and Takayoshi Tawaragi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter includes a DC capacitor circuit, a first capacitor circuit including a first flying capacitor, and a second capacitor circuit including a second flying capacitor. A controller increases or decreases a period for charging and discharging a first DC capacitor and a second DC capacitor based on a deviation of a detected voltage value of the first flying capacitor from ...