US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on May 19 for "Power module for a power converter with optimized signal pins" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,821, issued on May 19, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Power module for a power converter with optimized signal pins" was invented by Pengshuai Wang (Eriskirch, Germany) and Michael Kohr (Bodnegg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power module for supplying electricity to an electric axle drive in an electric vehicle and/or hybrid vehicle may include numerous semiconductor switches for receiving an input current and generating an output current on the basis of the received input current by switching the semiconductor switches, where the semiconductor switches each have a positive current elect...