ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,378, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Current cutoff device" was invented by Hiroo Yabe (Makinohara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current cutoff device includes a Hall element that detects a current value of a power supply line that supplies power from a battery to a motor, a cutoff unit that cuts off the power supply line, and a cutoff controller that operates the cutoff unit on a basis of a detection signal of the Hall element to cut off the power supply line. The cutoff controller includes a voltage-current conversion unit that outputs a current according to an output voltage value of the Hall elem...