ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,404, issued on April 15, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Inverter" was invented by Kouichi Yamanoue (Hiroshima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an inverter 1 configured such that an electric component portion 1a is integrated with a cooling portion 1b. A switching module 20 includes a heat sink 102 joined to the lower surface of a substrate 101. The cooling portion 1b includes an electric conductive cooler 10 forming a refrigerant flow path 11. The switching module 20 is attached to the cooler 10 such that a heat radiation portion 102d of the heat sink 102 is exposed to the inside of the cooler ...