US Patent Issued to LG MAGNA E-POWERTRAIN, RUBYCON on March 11 for "Film capacitor, power converting device, and vehicle including the same" (South Korean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,460, issued on March 11, was assigned to LG MAGNA E-POWERTRAIN Co. LTD. (Incheon, South Korea) and RUBYCON Corp. (Ina, Japan).

"Film capacitor, power converting device, and vehicle including the same" was invented by Sungtae Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Takahisa Makino (Shimoina-Gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A film capacitor for positioning at a direct current (DC) terminal at a front end of an inverter having a plurality of switching elements, can include a first member, and a second member surrounding the first member, in which a first thickness of the first member is greater than a second thickness of the second memb...