US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on June 30 for "Motor terminal snubbing circuit" (British, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,243, issued on June 30, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Motor terminal snubbing circuit" was invented by Grzegorz Popek (Birmingham, Great Britain) and Ignacio Castro Alvarez (Gijon, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A snubber circuit to mitigate voltage overshoot in a power train for driving a motor, the snubber circuit configured to be connected to the motor terminal between a transmission line from a power supply and converter and a motor. The snubber circuit includes a rectifier, a capacitor connected across an output of the rectifier and a load connected across the capacitor. The capacitor is rat...