ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,982, issued on May 20, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Power conversion device" was invented by Shingo Kitagawa (Tokyo), Daisuke Sasaki (Tokyo), Kohei Ando (Tokyo), Yoshifumi Mizuno (Tokyo), Yoshitsugu Hirayama (Tokyo), Hirofumi Inoue (Tokyo) and Koji Uyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a power conversion device, a semiconductor module, a bus bar assembly, and a smoothing capacitor are superposed on a cooler in the stated order from the cooler side. At least one of a cooling column-equipped member, which is at least one of the smoothing capacitor and the bus bar assembly, and the cooler is provided with...