ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,510, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Power converter and air conditioner" was invented by Atsushi Tsuchiya (Tokyo), Kazunori Hatakeyama (Tokyo) and Yuichi Shimizu (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter including: a non-boost rectifier circuit that converts a first alternating-current voltage into a direct-current voltage; a reactor connected to the rectifier circuit; a capacitor that smooths a direct-current voltage; an inverter that is connected in parallel to the capacitor, converts the smoothed direct-current voltage into a second alternating-current voltage having desired vo...