US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on April 29 for "Power conversion apparatus, motor drive apparatus, and air conditioner" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,062, issued on April 29, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power conversion apparatus, motor drive apparatus, and air conditioner" was invented by Takeshi Iida (Tokyo) and Satoru Ichiki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion apparatus includes a converter circuit and a control unit. The converter circuit includes circuits for the number of phases being more than one, the circuits each including a reactor and a corresponding first or second switching element connected to the reactor. The converter circuit converts an AC voltage output from a commercial power supply into a DC voltage. In a case where ...