H05K 7/20945
Thermal management
Official title: {Thermal management, e.g. inverter temperature control}
H05K7/20945 (Thermal management) appears on 219 US grants and 306 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H05K- Granted patents
- 219
- Published applications
- 306
- Assignees
- 188
- Inventors
- 795
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1 | 9 |
| 2011 | 1 | 4 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3 |
| 2013 | 5 | 4 |
| 2014 | 4 | 6 |
| 2015 | 1 | 13 |
| 2016 | 4 | 8 |
| 2017 | 12 | 15 |
| 2018 | 9 | 14 |
| 2019 | 27 | 37 |
| 2020 | 22 | 28 |
| 2021 | 16 | 28 |
| 2022 | 21 | 25 |
| 2023 | 22 | 15 |
| 2024 | 25 | 30 |
| 2025 | 21 | 34 |
| 2026 | 17 | 28 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Electric drive system of a motor vehicle and method for controlling the temperature of drive system components of such an electric drive system29 Sep 2026US 12,750,989 B2Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
- High fault-current inverters1 Sep 2026US 12,727,132 B2X Development LLC
- Cooling system for power electronics units4 Aug 2026US 12,701,682 B2Caterpillar Inc.
- Water heater and method for controlling the same4 Aug 2026US 12,701,684 B2LG Electronics Inc.
- Energy-saving method applied to machine room, apparatus, and system28 Jul 2026US 12,696,432 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Cooling system for power electronics24 Sep 2026US 2026/0293069 A1Carrier Corporation
- Scaled-capacity embodiment of a material-driven thermal management architecture17 Sep 2026US 2026/0282272 A1
- Transonic and supersonic two-phase flow for electronic cooling17 Sep 2026US 2026/0282285 A1University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
- Thermal management systems and methods for power devices17 Sep 2026US 2026/0282301 A1
- A power converter assembly with an electrical conductor manufactured by additive manufacturing10 Sep 2026US 2026/0269577 A1KK Wind Solutions A/S
Most cited
By later US patents
- Thermal protection of traction inverters72US 5,712,802 AGeneral Electric Company · 1998
- Power supply with separated airflows59US 5,831,847 AJerome Industries Corporation · 1998
- Temperature control of electronic components49US 6,041,850 AGeneral Electric Company · 2000
- Inverter module having multiple half-bridge modules for a power converter of an electric vehicle38US 10,236,791 B1SF Motors, Inc. · 2019
- Process for incrementally commissioning mechanical infrastructure in a data center37US 10,334,758 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2019