US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on May 26 for "Switch module for an inverter, inverter with several such switch modules and vehicle with the inverter" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,743, issued on May 26, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Switch module for an inverter, inverter with several such switch modules and vehicle with the inverter" was invented by Stefan Hain (Speichersdorf, Germany) and Ake Ewald (Bayreuth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch module for an inverter includes a high-side switch and a low-side switch, each of which has at least one semiconductor switch, wherein the semiconductor switches are attached to a flat substrate; a DC input connection with a positive DC input contact and a negative DC input contact; an AC output connection for outputting...