US Patent Issued to FUJI ELECTRIC on Feb. 10 for "Power converter, deterioration determination device, and deterioration determination method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,831, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Power converter, deterioration determination device, and deterioration determination method" was invented by Takaaki Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter includes a semiconductor device including a semiconductor element having first and second main electrodes and a control electrode, a first main terminal connected to the first main electrode, a second main terminal connected to the second main electrode, an auxiliary terminal connected to the second main electrode, and a control terminal connected to the control electrode. Th...