US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Dec. 9 for "Power conversion device with bypass of a gate current" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,721, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power conversion device with bypass of a gate current" was invented by Mao Kawamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The power conversion device includes: a control unit that switches between the on state in which a power module is made conductive between a drain terminal and a source terminal of the power module and the off state in which the power module is made non-conductive; a resistance element connected between the control unit and a gate terminal of the power module; and a bypass circuit in which a drain terminal of a semiconductor switching elemen...