US Patent Issued to NISSHINBO MICRO DEVICES on Sept. 15 for "DC/DC converter capable of performing constant on-time control with reduced variations of switching frequency" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,845, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NISSHINBO MICRO DEVICES INC. (Tokyo).

"DC/DC converter capable of performing constant on-time control with reduced variations of switching frequency" was invented by Kagehito Tanji (Ikeda, Japan), Kohei Santo (Ikeda, Japan) and Shiro Matsushita (Ikeda, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver circuit is configured to operate the switching elements using constant ON-time control. A monitoring circuit generates a first control signal indicating whether the DC/DC converter is in a steady state or in an abnormal state. An ON-timer circuit generates a second control signal based on the first ...