US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on July 28 for "Power conversion device and manufacturing method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,822, issued on July 28, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power conversion device and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Toshifumi Nakamura (Tokyo), Akihiro Sawada (Tokyo), Makoto Matsumoto (Tokyo) and Kimihiko Tanaya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This power conversion device includes cast resin provided at least between an inner wall of a storage portion and a smoothing capacitor and between the inner wall of the storage portion and a resistor, so as to be formed integrally, and heat dissipation and vibration protection for the smoothing capacitor and the resistor can be made by the cast resin. ...