ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,069, issued on June 3, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Power conversion apparatus and air conditioner" was invented by Atsushi Tsuchiya (Tokyo), Kazunori Hatakeyama (Tokyo) and Yuichi Shimizu (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Included are a rectifier circuit that rectifies a first alternating-current voltage; a reactor connected to the rectifier circuit; a capacitor connected to an output end of the rectifier circuit; an inverter that is connected to the capacitor, generates a second alternating-current voltage through operations of a plurality of switching elements, and applies the second alternating-current v...