US Patent Issued to AISIN on Oct. 14 for "Switching element module, inverter device, and vehicle drive device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,022, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Switching element module, inverter device, and vehicle drive device" was invented by Yuya Mizuno (Kariya, Japan), Yutaka Hotta (Kariya, Japan), Ryota Sato (Kariya, Japan) and Hirosato Ihara (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching element module includes a first switching element and a second switching element connected between a positive electrode and a negative electrode of a direct current power supply, a smoothing capacitor connected between the positive electrode and the negative electrode of the direct current power supply, and a cooling bloc...