ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,694, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to AMERICAN AXLE & MANUFACTURING INC. (Detroit).
"Integrated power switching device heat sink" was invented by James P. Downs (South Lyon, Mich.), Paul J. Valente (Berkley, Mich.) and Chi-Wai David Lau (LaSalle, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical assembly that with an inverter that is mounted to the field windings of a stator. The inverter has a plurality of power semiconductor packages (PSP), each of which including a semiconductor die, a plurality of electric terminals, which are electrically coupled to the semiconductor die, and a heat sink with a base, which is fixedly and ele...