Patent 8964424 was granted and assigned to Daikin Industries, Ltd. on February, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A voltage control rate of an inverter has a DC component and an AC component. This AC component has a frequency which is six times a fundamental frequency of an AC voltage outputted by the inverter. Even when there are not only a fifth-order harmonic component but also a seventh-order harmonic component of a load current, a ratio between the magnitude of the AC component and the DC component can be appropriately set.