ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,808, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Power converter and power supply apparatus" was invented by Hidenori Suzuki (Tokyo), Ryotaro Harada (Tokyo) and Yoshinobu Koji (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter includes an inverter circuit, a variable reactor, a transformer, and a converter circuit. The inverter circuit includes a plurality of switching elements and snubber capacitors each connected in parallel to a corresponding one of the switching elements, and converts a first DC voltage into a first AC voltage. The variable reactor is disposed on the output side of the inverte...