US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on June 30 for "Failure detection device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,534, issued on June 30, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Failure detection device" was invented by Atsushi Takahashi (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A failure detection device includes a first, second and third switch units, and a failure detection unit detecting an ON failure of the first switch unit and the second switch unit. The failure detection unit includes a voltage application unit applying a specified voltage to the connection point in a superimposed manner when all of the first, second, and third switch units are controlled to be turned off, a voltage detection unit detecting a voltage of the connection...