US Patent Issued to Rohm on Feb. 3 for "DC/DC converter control circuit, power supply circuit and electronic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,489, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"DC/DC converter control circuit, power supply circuit and electronic device" was invented by Shun Fukushima (Kyoto, Japan) and Tomohisa Shinozaki (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a switch drive circuit. The switch drive circuit is configured to drive a load switch that is a PMOS transistor connected between a high-side transistor and a load. The switch drive circuit is configured to be switchable between (i) a first mode in which the PMOS transistor is fully turned on and (ii) a second mode in which a drive voltage corresp...