US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on March 17 for "Method of updating a thermal model of an electric motor" (Finnish, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,513, issued on March 17, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method of updating a thermal model of an electric motor" was invented by Panagiotis Kakosimos (Vasteras, Sweden), Olli Alkkiomaki (Helsinki) and Zlatko Kolondjovski (Vantaa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of updating a thermal model describing the thermal behaviour of an electric motor having a stator provided with stator windings, the method including: a) injecting a current into the stator windings to heat the stator windings, b) obtaining temperature measurements over time from each of a plurality of temperature sensors distributed in ...