US Patent Issued to Valeo eAutomotive France on March 25 for "DC link capacitor, power converter and electric vehicle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,993, issued on March 25, was assigned to Valeo eAutomotive France SAS (Cergy, France).

"DC link capacitor, power converter and electric vehicle" was invented by Lothar Seif (Cergy, France), Christophe Lopes (Cergy, France), Aurelien Pouilly (Cergy, France) and Thomas Canonne (Cergy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DC link capacitor (8) comprises a capacitor housing, a plurality of capacitor cells (1), each comprising a film capacitor element (2) with a wound metallized film and two contact terminals (3a, 3b) connected to the metallized plastic film. The plurality of capacitor cells (1) are arranged in the capacitor housing (...