US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on April 7 for "Driving method and driving device for semiconductor device, and power conversion apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,919, issued on April 7, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driving method and driving device for semiconductor device, and power conversion apparatus" was invented by Yasutaka Imamura (Tokyo), Yohei Mitsui (Tokyo), Yukihiko Wada (Tokyo) and Takayoshi Miki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device is subjected to ON/OFF control by controlling a gate voltage according to a drive control signal. In a turn-on operation for charging a gate in response to transition of drive control signal from a first level to a second level, a drive signal is set to first level to discharge the gate at a first time aft...