ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,166, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Daisy-chain DC automotive power module connections" was invented by Man Prakash Gupta (Dearborn, Mich.), Kewei Xiao (Canton, Mich.) and Michael W. Degner (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automotive power module includes a plurality of power card assemblies arranged in a stack. Each of the power card assemblies includes a power card, a phase lead tab extending from the power card, and pairs of power lead tabs extending from the power card and being in direct contact with at least some of the phase lead tabs of adjacent ones of the po...