US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on May 19 for "Gate driving device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,916, issued on May 19, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Gate driving device" was invented by Yo Habu (Tokyo), Takashi Watanabe (Fukuoka, Japan) and Shohei Higashi (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driving device according to the present disclosure includes a gate driver circuit, a first capacitor provided outside, and a first diode. The gate driver circuit includes first and second transistors that operate complementarily, are connected in series between a first node at a first voltage and a second node at a second voltage lower than the first voltage, and have a connection node serving as an out...