ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,177, issued on July 21, was assigned to TMEIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Electric power conversion unit for improving cooling efficiency" was invented by Kenshi Nagumo (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric power conversion unit includes a housing, a plurality of fans, a heat sink, and a plurality of semiconductor elements. The fan generates a flow of air at an inside of the housing. The heat sink forms a flow path of the air on an upstream side of a flow route of the air at the inside of the housing. The plurality of semiconductor elements is arranged and aligned along a direction which intersects a flow direction of the air in the ...