ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,005, issued on July 29, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Power converter and air-conditioning apparatus" was invented by Kenta Yuasa (Tokyo), Kenji Iwazaki (Tokyo) and Keiwa Tsukano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter includes a power converting module and a gate drive circuit that includes first and second drive circuits and a power supply module including a limiting resistor, a bootstrap diode, and a bootstrap capacitor, and configured to generate a voltage to be supplied to the second drive circuit. The bootstrap capacitor is charged when a switching element connected to a reference potential...