US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on June 23 for "Motor control device, motor control method, steering system, and vehicle drive system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,184, issued on June 23, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Motor control device, motor control method, steering system, and vehicle drive system" was invented by Katsuhiro Hoshino (Hitachinaka, Japan), Takafumi Hara (Tokyo) and Takaya Tsukagoshi (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor control device includes: an inverter circuit that drives a motor; and a control unit that generates a current command value on the basis of a torque command to the motor, and outputs a PWM pulse to the inverter circuit on the basis of the current command value to control the inverter circuit, and the control un...