US Patent Issued to Sharp on Sept. 22 for "Rectifier circuit and power supply unit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,449, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Rectifier circuit and power supply unit" was invented by Takeshi Shiomi (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rectifier circuit is used that includes a high withstand voltage transistor, a low withstand voltage transistor, and a control transistor. The high withstand voltage transistor has a reference terminal thereof connected to a high voltage terminal of the low withstand voltage transistor, and the high withstand voltage transistor has a control terminal thereof connected to a reference terminal of the low withstand voltage transistor via a c...