US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Dec. 16 for "Power conversion system and control device for same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,506, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power conversion system and control device for same" was invented by Takeshi Kikuchi (Tokyo), Fuminori Nakamura (Tokyo) and Ryosuke Uda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion system includes: a self-commutated converter connected between an AC power system, and a first DC main line and a DC return line; a line-commutated converter connected between the AC power system, and the DC return line and a second DC main line; and a control device. When activating the self-commutated converter and the line-commutated converter, the control device act...