US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on June 23 for "Power converter apparatus for vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,500, issued on June 23, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Power converter apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Sang Hun Lee (Taebaek-si, South Korea) and Moon Jo Kang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter apparatus includes a power module assembly including a power module and a cooler overlapping with the power module to allow the cooler to cover both sides of the power module, and a capacitor and a low voltage direct-current (DC)-DC converter (LDC) which are coupled in a state of pressing the power module assembly on both sides of the powe...