US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on Nov. 3 for "Electric junction box for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,371, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electric junction box for vehicle" was invented by Hayato Yamaguchi (Makinohara, Japan), Sadaharu Okuda (Makinohara, Japan), Taku Furuta (Makinohara, Japan), Junya Kato (Makinohara, Japan) and Ryoichi Murata (Makinohara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric junction box is equipped with a special simplified power supply. An internal circuit of the electric junction box supplies the output of the simplified power supply as an operating voltage of a DC/DC converter to start the DC/DC converter when battery exhaustion occurs in the low voltage battery. When the DC/...