US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Jan. 13 for "Power conversion apparatus, motor drive apparatus, and refrigeration cycle apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,890, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power conversion apparatus, motor drive apparatus, and refrigeration cycle apparatus" was invented by Takaaki Takahara (Tokyo), Koichi Arisawa (Tokyo), Keisuke Uemura (Tokyo), Haruka Matsuo (Tokyo), Koyo Matsuzaki (Tokyo), Kenji Takahashi (Tokyo), Akira Satake (Tokyo) and Hajime Toyoda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion apparatus includes a rectification unit that rectifies a first alternating-current power supplied from a commercial power supply; a capacitor connected to output terminals of the rectification unit; an inverter that is co...