US Patent Issued to TMEIC on July 21 for "DC power converter" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,296, issued on July 21, was assigned to TMEIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"DC power converter" was invented by Masahiro Kinoshita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DC power converter includes a chopper circuit. In a step-up mode, in the chopper circuit, a current path that starts from the DC power supply and returns to the DC power supply through the first reactor, the first connection point, the second switch, the third connection point, the second capacitor, and the fourth connection point in order is formed when the first switch is off and the second switch is on, and a current path that starts from DC power supply and returns to the DC ...