US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on March 11 for "Power electronic device assemblies having an electrically insulating S-cell" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,554, issued on March 11, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Power electronic device assemblies having an electrically insulating S-cell" was invented by Feng Zhou (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Tianzhu Fan (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a power electronics assembly includes a power device assembly further including an S-cell. The S-cell includes a first metal layer having a recess, a graphite layer bonded to the first metal layer, a second metal layer bonded to the graphite layer, and a ceramic layer, wherein the ceramic layer has a first metalized surface...