ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,260, issued on May 27, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Power conversion device" was invented by Satoshi Murakami (Tokyo) and Takahiro Okanoue (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion device according to the present disclosure has one end connected to a DC voltage source and another end connected to a load, and includes: an inverter circuit which converts DC voltage from the DC voltage source to AC voltage to be outputted to the load, and includes a leg in which an upper arm and a lower arm each having a switching element, and a resistor, are connected in series, and a smoothing capacitor connected ...