ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,540, issued on May 13, was assigned to DANA TM4 INC. (Boucherville, Canada).
"Inverter with capacitor discharge and cooling system" was invented by Mohammed Amar (Montreal), Francois Dube (Montreal), Maalainine El Yacoubi (Sainte Julie, Canada), Michel Brazeau (Delson, Canada) and Marc-Antoine Beaupre (Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is shown for cooling components of an inverter. In one example, an inverter comprises a first compartment including a direct current (DC) link capacitor that is electrically coupled to a discharge resistor; and a thermal pad in contact with the DC link capacitor; a cool...