US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on June 16 for "Power conversion apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,815, issued on June 16, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Power conversion apparatus" was invented by Akira Mima (Tokyo), Takeshi Tokuyama (Tokyo), Junpei Kusukawa (Tokyo) and Takashi Hirao (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal being terminals of a capacitor element; a positive electrode conductor plate connected to the positive electrode terminal; a negative electrode conductor plate connected to the negative electrode terminal; and a power conversion module connected to the two conductor plates. The positive electrode ...