Siemens Vdo Automotive Corporation

Ballard Power Systems Corporation

Gerardo Jimenez

Fred Flett

Sayeed Ahmed

Douglas K Maly

Ajay V Patwardhan

Kanghua Chen

Pablo Rodriguez

Power converters such as power modules configured as inverters employ modularized approaches. In some aspects, semiconductor devices are thermally coupled directly to thermally conductive substrates without intervening dielectric or insulative structures. Additionally, or alternatively, semiconductor devices are thermally coupled to thermally conductive substrates with relatively large surface areas before heat transferred from the semiconductor devices encounters a dielectric or electrically insulating structure with correspondingly high thermal impedance.

Architecture for power modules such as power inverters

A power converter comprising a DC/AC bridge circuit electrically coupled between positive and negative DC bus terminals and a set of phase terminals, a DC/DC bridge circuit electrically coupled to the positive and negative DC bus terminals and a set of DC bridge terminals. The power converter may be configured to control the transfer of power to and/or from the DC bridge terminals and to control the transfer of power to and/or from the AC phase terminals.

Power converter

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Southgate, MI, United States of America

Gerardo Jimenez