US Patent Issued to AutoNetworks Technologies, Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Sumitomo Electric Industries on May 12 for "Power feed control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,167, issued on May 12, was assigned to AutoNetworks Technologies Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Power feed control device" was invented by Keisuke Wakazono (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Kazuki Masuda (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power feed control device includes a voltage conversion unit performs a conversion operation of increasing or decreasing an input voltage based on power from a power storage unit. An element unit is configured to allow a current to flow to a power path side via itself, and to be able to block a curre...