US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on May 12 for "Arc detection device, breaker, power conditioner, solar panel, solar-panel-attached module, junction box, arc detection system, and arc detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,133, issued on May 12, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Arc detection device, breaker, power conditioner, solar panel, solar-panel-attached module, junction box, arc detection system, and arc detection method" was invented by Tatsuo Koga (Osaka, Japan), Keita Kanamori (Osaka, Japan), Kazunori Kidera (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshio Mitsutake (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arc detection device that detects an arc fault that occurs in a transmission line connecting a DC power supply that generates DC power and a power converter that converts the DC power to AC power, includes:...