US Patent Issued to Mazda Motor on July 14 for "Power converter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,513, issued on July 14, was assigned to Mazda Motor Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Power converter" was invented by Hiroaki Kashihara (Aki-gun, Japan), Takayuki Sato (Aki-gun, Japan), Masayuki Okazaki (Aki-gun, Japan) and Makoto Hattori (Higashihiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter is provided, which includes a power module part and a smoothing part including a smoothing capacitor, a cathode-side connection busbar, and an anode-side connection busbar. The smoothing capacitor has a cathode-side terminal and an anode-side terminal. One of the cathode-side connection busbar and the anode-side connection busbar ha...