ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,037, issued on July 8, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).
"Thermal management of active discharge function in automotive inverters" was invented by James David (Portage, Mich.), Neeraj Sharma (Pune, India), Amit Ravindra Chavan (Kolhapur, India), Ravikiran Panjabrao Rathod (Sindkhed Raja, India) and Matthew Charles Haylock (Oregon City, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal management system for an automotive inverter includes an active discharge circuit in thermal communication with a DC link capacitor, a thermal interface material positioned between the active discharge circuit and the DC link capacitor s...