ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,691, issued on March 31, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN (Kyoto, Japan).
"Motor driving device" was invented by Daisuke Fukuda (Kyoto, Japan), Takuya Ishii (Osaka, Japan), Toru Kawanishi (Nara, Japan) and Masahiro Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor driving device includes: a series circuit of a Zener diode and a detection resistor, connected between a gate terminal and a ground of a first high-side transistor; a comparator that compares a voltage of the detection resistor with a reference voltage; a first driving transistor that short-circuits between the gate and source terminals of ...