US Patent Issued to OMRON on March 18 for "Driving circuit for switching element and switching circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,640, issued on March 18, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Driving circuit for switching element and switching circuit" was invented by Noriyuki Nosaka (Kyoto, Japan), Hironori Tauchi (Kyoto, Japan), Takuro Hashimoto (Kyoto, Japan), Wataru Okada (Kyoto, Japan), Mamoru Sueki (Kyoto, Japan) and Satoshi Iwai (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving circuit that drives a switching element, the driving circuit includes: a controller that includes a first terminal connected to a gate terminal of the switching element and a second terminal connected to a source terminal of the switching element, and outputs a contr...