US Patent Issued to Rohm on Oct. 27 for "Switching device and DC/DC converter" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,708, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Switching device and DC/DC converter" was invented by Osamu Yanagida (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first transistor and a second transistor disposed on the lower-potential side of the first transistor are connected in series with each other. Based on a level change in a drive control signal, the first transistor is turned on at the lapse of a first delay time and the second transistor is turned off at the lapse of a second delay time. Based on the gate signals to the first and second transistors, the turn-on timing of the first transistor and the ...