US Patent Issued to ROHM on Sept. 30 for "Series capacitor buck converter and controller circuit and control method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,803, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Series capacitor buck converter and controller circuit and control method thereof" was invented by Akihiro Kawano (Kyoto, Japan) and Kazuki Hashimoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a controller circuit of a series capacitor buck converter including input and output lines, a first switch, a coupled inductor including a first inductor and a second inductor, a second switch, a series capacitor, a third switch, a fourth switch, and an output capacitor. The controller circuit includes a control logic circuit that generates a pluralit...