ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,829, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SANDEN Corp. (Isesaki, Japan) and KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Kitakyushu, Japan).
"Power conversion device" was invented by Kohei Takada (Isesaki, Japan), Koji Kobayashi (Isesaki, Japan) and Tohlu Matsushima (Kitakyushu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion device is provided which is capable of balancing impedance relatively easily and suppressing noise caused by a common mode current when a three-phase AC output is applied to drive a motor. When the inductance of a positive electrode-side path 16 is Zv, the inductance of a negative electrode-side path 17 is Zg, the ca...