US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 25 for "Contained package for automotive inverter and y-snubber components" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,723, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Contained package for automotive inverter and y-snubber components" was invented by Krishna Prasad Bhat (Canton, Mich.), Chingchi Chen (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Nitin Parsa (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Varittha Sanphuang (Dearborn, Mich.), Michael W. Degner (Novi, Mich.) and Hongjie Wu (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automotive power system includes a traction battery, an electric machine, and one or more power cards each containing at least one power semiconductor switch and at least one Y-snubber that includes a series connected capaci...