US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY on March 24 for "Power converter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,105, issued on March 24, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Nagaoka, Japan).

"Power converter" was invented by Yu Kawai (Tokyo), Kikuo Izumi (Tokyo), Junichi Itoh (Nagaoka, Japan) and Hiroki Watanabe (Nagaoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a DAB circuit including a first bridge and a second bridge, a boost circuit is shared by connecting reactors between a storage battery and the first bridge. In each leg of the first bridge, in order to increase an absolute value of a reactor current, an ON period of one switching element of a switching e...