US Patent Issued to ROHM on Aug. 11 for "Gate driving device and power converter" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,526, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Gate driving device and power converter" was invented by Takaharu Ishibashi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driving device comprises: a gate driving unit that outputs power for switching between on and off of a semiconductor switching element; a speed control unit that controls at least one of a turn-on speed and a turn-off speed of the semiconductor switching element; and a speed switching unit that switches at least one of the turn-on speed and the turn-off speed in response to an instruction from the speed control unit. The speed switching u...