To provide a power converter, capable of making a current flow through respective elements so as to be balanced, even if the currents of the elements connected parallelly has slight by different properties, by manufacturing the shape of a conductor for connecting a thyristor with other circuits, so as to be extended in the direction of a path through which current flows.
This power converter includes a plurality of semiconductor elements connected in parallel, and adjusts power supplied to a load by passing or cutting off current flowing through the semiconductor elements. The conductor is formed out of a conductor part which has a long side in a current-flowing direction and a short side in the direction orthogonal to the current flowing- direction, and the connection part of connecting one side in the longitudinal direction of the conductor part, which has the long side in the current-flowing direction and the short side in the direction orthogonal to the current-flowing direction, to the respective semiconductor elements, and connecting the other side thereof in common. Non uniformity of current, flowing through the semiconductor element connected in parallel without having to provide electrical parts, such as a resistor connected in series with the semiconductor elements.
KAMIYA KENJI
KAWAKAMI KAZUTO
