US Patent Issued to RICOH on March 4 for "Power conversion device, image forming apparatus, and power conversion control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,246, issued on March 4, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Power conversion device, image forming apparatus, and power conversion control method" was invented by Tsuyoshi Mano (Tokyo) and Junpei Hosoya (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion device includes a power conversion circuit, a memory, a voltage detection circuit, a current detection circuit, and a control circuit. The power conversion circuit controls a switching device based on a switching pulse signal to convert direct current power into alternating current power and output the alternating current power to a power supply target. The me...