US Patent Issued to Rohm on Feb. 10 for "Driving control device, vehicle-onboard power supply system, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,177, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Driving control device, vehicle-onboard power supply system, and vehicle" was invented by Kiminobu Sato (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving control device for controlling the driving of the gate of a cut-off NMOS transistor arranged to be connectable between a first power supply circuit and a second power supply circuit includes a boost circuit configured to feed a gate control voltage to the gate and a controller configured, in start-up control for the cut-off NMOS transistor, to keep the current capacity of the boost circuit during start-up at...