ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,316, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"DC link capacitor with heat dissipation" was invented by Daniel Eckstein (Achern, Germany), Patrick Augustin (Buhl, Germany) and Nicolai Gramann (Renchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DC link capacitor includes a lower busbar, an upper busbar, a cooling structure, and a plurality of structurally identical capacitor elements which are arranged between the lower busbar and the upper busbar and in electrical contact with the lower busbar and the upper busbar. The capacitor elements are spaced from each other in a longitudi...