US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Sept. 8 for "Band gap power supply circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,471, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Band gap power supply circuit" was invented by Shimpei Yamashita (Tokyo) and Sho Ikeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a band gap power supply circuit including a band gap core circuit to perform control in such a way that the sum of a current flowing through a diode and a current flowing through a first current path becomes equal to the sum of a current flowing through a diode and a current flowing through a second current path, and the sum of the forward direction voltage of the diode and a voltage drop across a resistor becomes equal to ...