US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on March 18 for "Power conversion device that performs power conversion between DC circuit and AC circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,544, issued on March 18, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power conversion device that performs power conversion between DC circuit and AC circuit" was invented by Takuya Kajiyama (Tokyo), Toshiyuki Fujii (Tokyo), Shuhei Fujiwara (Tokyo), Ryosuke Uda (Tokyo) and Yoshiyuki Kono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion device includes a power conversion circuit unit including a plurality of leg circuits, and a control device. Each of the leg circuits includes a plurality of first converter cells each having a capacitor and connected in series to each other and a plurality of second converter cells ea...