US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Oct. 20 for "DC short circuit protection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,114, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"DC short circuit protection device" was invented by Hideki Iwaki (Osaka, Japan), Eiichi Sadayuki (Osaka, Japan) and Tomoaki Furuse (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A direct current short circuit protection device includes a fuse that includes a bus bar and cuts off the bus bar in response to an ignition signal, a first current detector that includes a first resistor and detects a current flowing through the bus bar, a second current detector that includes a second resistor and detects the current flowing through th...