US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 22 for "Fault detection circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,596, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Fault detection circuit" was invented by Yu Sasaki (Kashiwa, Japan) and Hiroyuki Iyama (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fault detection circuit according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of phase difference detection circuits configured to generate phase difference measurement signals having a pulse width corresponding to a magnitude of a phase difference between two of drive signals of different phases among a plurality of drive signals, a plurality of smoothing circuits configured to smooth the phase difference measurement si...