US Patent Issued to MINEBEA POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE on Feb. 10 for "Rectifier circuit and power supply using the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,109, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MINEBEA POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INC. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Rectifier circuit and power supply using the same" was invented by Yoshihiro Miwa (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Shoji (Tokyo), Junichi Sakano (Tokyo), Tomoyuki Utsumi (Hitachi, Japan) and Takahiro Higuchi (Hitachi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An effective technique is applied to a rectifier circuit that performs synchronous rectification using a switching element. The rectifier circuit performs the synchronous rectification using a MOSFET, for example, as the switching element. By using the rectifier circuit, a capacitance of a capacitor f...