ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,616, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Oil-cooled rectifier diode assembly" was invented by Ashutosh Joshi (Roscoe, Ill.), Eric A. Carter (Monroe, Wis.), Debabrata Pal (Hoffman Estates, Ill.) and Coralyn J. Saxby (Davis, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid-cooled rectifier assembly includes first and second bus bars, each having at least one cooling channel formed therein, which are adapted and configured to carry a cooling fluid therethrough, and a first power diode array arranged between and in contact with the first and second bus bars. A third bus bar can be provided, along wi...