US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Feb. 25 for "Power conversion apparatus, electric power system for aircraft, and method of controlling power conversion apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,793, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power conversion apparatus, electric power system for aircraft, and method of controlling power conversion apparatus" was invented by Junichi Nakashima (Tokyo), Kenji Fujiwara (Tokyo), Kozo Harada (Tokyo), Kunihiko Tajiri (Tokyo) and Yuji Shirakata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion apparatus includes a hermetic housing, a power semiconductor module, and dry gas. The hermetic housing includes a gas inlet valve and a gas outlet valve. The power semiconductor module is arranged in an internal space in the hermetic housing. The internal spa...