ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,455, issued on June 24, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Power conversion apparatus" was invented by Syusei Nishimura (Nisshin, Japan), Masahito Fujieda (Nisshin, Japan) and Keiya Tani (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion apparatus includes a rotating electrical machine equipped with star-connected windings and an inverter equipped with series-connected units made up of upper arm switches and lower arm switches. The power conversion apparatus also includes a connecting path which electrically connects a negative terminal of a first electrical storage, a positive terminal of a second electrical...