US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on May 12 for "Techniques for transitioning between control modes of an active front end unit" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,242, issued on May 12, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Techniques for transitioning between control modes of an active front end unit" was invented by Seok-hee Han (Dunlap, Ill.), Jesse R. Gerdes (Dunlap, Ill.) and Jackson Wai (Dunlap, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to reduce discontinuities in power, for example, by controlling an electrical power output of an active front end unit during a transition between a first operating mode and a second operating mode. In some examples, to reduce discontinuities, a control unit of the active front end unit can seed the integrator of proportional-integral (PI)...