ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,243, issued on May 27, was assigned to TMEIC Corp. (Chuo-ku, Japan).
"Power converter and failure analysis method" was invented by Hironobu Kusunoki (Chuo-ku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a power converter (1) includes a main circuit (10), an electrification control unit (25), and an analysis unit (24). The main circuit includes a plurality of switching devices (Q1 to Q4), converts direct-current power into multiphase alternating-current power through switching of the plurality of switching devices, is able to supply the multiphase alternating-current power to an alternating-current load (2) connec...