US Patent Issued to TMEIC on Oct. 14 for "Control apparatus, electric power conversion apparatus, and method for detecting failure of AC capacitor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,063, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TMEIC Corp. (Chuo-ku, Japan).

"Control apparatus, electric power conversion apparatus, and method for detecting failure of AC capacitor" was invented by Daiki Terashima (Tokyo), Yoshihiro Tawada (Tokyo), Tomoya Katsukura (Tokyo) and Issei Fukasawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus is a control apparatus for a power conversion apparatus including at least one AC capacitor disposed on the output side of an inverter and disconnected from a circuit when the AC capacitor malfunctions and including a current component extractor that acquires current values of the current flowi...