ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,031, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Power conversion device" was invented by Yusuke Higaki (Tokyo), Takushi Jimichi (Tokyo), Kimiyuki Koyanagi (Tokyo), Takuya Kajiyama (Tokyo) and Akito Nakayama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Unit converters each comprises a capacitor, a switching element having a flat surface on one side, a P-pole connection conductor where a second terminal hole at one end for fixing an electrode corresponding to a P-pole of the switching element and a first terminal hole at the other end for fixing a terminal of the capacitor are formed, and an N-pole connection condu...