US Patent Issued to Yazaki on Nov. 3 for "Charger" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,414, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Yazaki Corp. (Tokyo).

"Charger" was invented by Ryo Gondo (Susono, Japan), Michito Enomoto (Susono, Japan), Daisuke Maezaki (Susono, Japan), Yoshiya Ohnuma (Nagaoka, Japan), Shunsuke Takuma (Nagaoka, Japan) and Shohei Komeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charger is configured such that when an output power value of a DC/DC converter is smaller than a first power value, a switch of the DC/DC converter and a first switch of a power pulsation absorbing circuit are controlled according to a discontinuous current mode during one entire period of an AC voltage inputted from a AC power supply;...