US Patent Issued to Rohm on July 28 for "Overcurrent protection circuit, semiconductor device, electronic apparatus, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,295, issued on July 28, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Overcurrent protection circuit, semiconductor device, electronic apparatus, and vehicle" was invented by Katsuaki Yamada (Kyoto, Japan), Toru Takuma (Kyoto, Japan) and Shuntaro Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overcurrent protection circuit that limits a current to be monitored based on a current limit signal includes: a first transistor and a second transistor configured to form an amplifier input stage that receives input of a detection signal according to the current to be monitored; a third transistor configured to generate a current o...