ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,028, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Power converter and coil apparatus" was invented by Kenji Nishizaka (Tokyo), Takashi Kumagai (Tokyo), Tomohito Fukuda (Tokyo) and Atsushi Hosokawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil apparatus includes a coil unit including a coil, a base core that is a first core component, and a core module that is a second core component. The first core component includes a center leg that is a leg around which the coil is wound. The second core component includes a plurality of core segments arranged in a row with gaps between them. The second core component is c...