US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Sept. 1 for "Power conversion device for suppressing overvoltage during power on" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,110, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power conversion device for suppressing overvoltage during power on" was invented by Shuta Ishikawa (Tokyo), Hajime Toyoda (Tokyo) and Koyo Matsuzaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This power conversion device includes a rectification circuit which rectifies input voltage from the AC power supply; a leg circuit having an upper leg composed of semiconductor elements connected in series and a lower leg composed of semiconductor elements connected in series, the upper leg and the lower leg being connected in series, at least the semiconductor elements in ...