US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on June 2 for "Power converter and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,044, issued on June 2, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Power converter and control method" was invented by Yutaka Kamon (Osaka, Japan), Koji Higashiyama (Osaka, Japan) and Yasuhiro Arai (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a power converter, a plurality of resonant capacitors are provided one to one for a plurality of switches, respectively. Each of the plurality of resonant capacitors is connected between a first terminal of a corresponding one of the plurality of switches and a second DC terminal. A controller controls a plurality of first switching elements, a pluralit...