US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR, ROHM on Aug. 5 for "Light-weight high power inverter structure with equalized inductance" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,489, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan) and ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Light-weight high power inverter structure with equalized inductance" was invented by Takayuki Sato (Aki-gun, Japan) and Masashi Hayashiguchi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an inverter that includes a smoothing capacitor and a plurality of power modules, the smoothing capacitor includes a plurality of columnar unit capacitors each having electrodes at both ends thereof, a one-end-side bus plate connected to the electrode at one end of each unit capacitor, and an other-end-side bus plate connected to the elect...