US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on May 27 for "Power supply device, ACF converter, and AC adapter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,232, issued on May 27, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Power supply device, ACF converter, and AC adapter" was invented by Takeya Okuno (Nara, Japan), Manabu Yanagihara (Osaka, Japan) and Hiroki Akashi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "EMI noise is reduced and a component mounting area is suppressed, and downsizing of a power supply device is achieved. Power supply device includes transistor block, gate drive circuit block, and driver block. First gate terminal and second gate terminal are disposed on the same side as gate drive circuit block when viewed from a center of...