US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on March 24 for "Power converting apparatus, heat pump apparatus, and air conditioner" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,108, issued on March 24, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power converting apparatus, heat pump apparatus, and air conditioner" was invented by Kazunori Hatakeyama (Tokyo) and Yuji Takayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converting apparatus includes: a rectifier that rectifies alternating-current power output from an alternating-current power supply; a capacitor provided at an output end of the rectifier; a reactor provided on a path from the alternating-current power supply to the capacitor; a load connected across the capacitor; and a control unit that reduces a charging and discharging current o...