US Patent Issued to ROHM on Aug. 19 for "Semiconductor device, semiconductor module, relay unit, battery unit, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,169, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Semiconductor device, semiconductor module, relay unit, battery unit, and vehicle" was invented by Mineo Miura (Kyoto, Japan), Masashi Hayashiguchi (Kyoto, Japan) and Jun Terada (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first terminal for a battery, a second terminal for an inverter circuit, and a transistor. The semiconductor device is configured to control a voltage applied to a control terminal of the transistor to allow supply of a current from the first terminal to the second terminal and allow supply of a current from the...