ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,975, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Interruption device" was invented by Mima Furukawa (Osaka, Japan), Hideki Iwaki (Osaka, Japan), Eiichi Sadayuki (Osaka, Japan), Tomoaki Furuse (Osaka, Japan), Kenjiro Kumazawa (Tokyo) and Shinya Saito (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutoff device includes a conductor wire, a pyrotechnic circuit breaker, a plurality of drive circuits connected to the pyrotechnic circuit breaker in parallel and configured to activate the pyrotechnic circuit breaker, and a control circuit. The control circuit sets an output current...