ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,471, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Inverter integrated motor" was invented by Takaki Itaya (Hitachinaka, Japan), Noriyuki Maekawa (Hitachinaka, Japan), Hideaki Goto (Hitachinaka, Japan), Shigehisa Aoyagi (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Takashi Hirao (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide an inverter integrated motor that can effectively cool a power module of an inverter portion. An inverter portion 120 is connected to a motor portion and includes a power module 121 that converts a DC power into an AC power, a first flow path forming b...