US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on March 24 for "Power conversion device and control method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,100, issued on March 24, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Power conversion device and control method thereof" was invented by Ryusuke Kanomata (Osaka, Japan), Shinji Ujita (Osaka, Japan), Kenichiro Tanaka (Hyogo, Japan), Takeshi Nakayashiki (Osaka, Japan) and Takayuki Hirokawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The power conversion device can undergo autonomous search control for ZVS without a larger circuit area or lower reliability. The power conversion device performs, in each switching cycle, an operation of turning the control switch (CTLSW) on and afterward off whil...