US Patent Issued to IHI, THE RITSUMEIKAN TRUST on Oct. 6 for "Power generation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,176, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to IHI Corp. (Tokyo) and THE RITSUMEIKAN TRUST (Kyoto, Japan).

"Power generation device" was invented by Toshikazu Kobayashi (Tokyo), Hirotaka Sugawara (Tokyo) and Yoshitaka Kawabata (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power generation device includes: a power generator, a power conversion circuit, a first interruption circuit, a second interruption circuit, a first monitoring circuit which monitors an output current from the power generator to the power conversion circuit and outputs a first interruption signal when an absolute value of the output current exceeds a first predetermined va...