US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on July 21 for "Gate drive circuitry and power converter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,285, issued on July 21, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Gate drive circuitry and power converter" was invented by Shota Morisaki (Tokyo) and Takayoshi Miki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller of a gate drive circuitry includes: a Vsd table indicating a first voltage, which is a voltage between a drain terminal and a source terminal, in a correspondence between a first current and a first junction temperature; and a Vsd table indicating the first voltage in a correspondence between a second current and a second junction temperature. The first and second currents are currents flowing when a semiconduc...