US Patent Issued to DENSO on Oct. 20 for "Motor driver" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,274, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Motor driver" was invented by Koki Nagura (Kariya-city, Japan) and Hideki Kabune (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor driver includes an inverter, a multiphase pre-driver circuit, a controller and motor relays. The inverter includes pairs of an upper-arm switching element and a lower-arm switching element being connected in series between a ground line and a power supply line, and supplies power to a multiphase motor by converting direct current power of a battery. The multiphase pre-driver circuit drives the upper-arm and lower-arm switc...