US Patent Issued to JTEKT on April 7 for "Motor control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,984, issued on April 7, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Motor control device" was invented by Terutaka Tamaizumi (Okazaki, Japan), Yufeng Lin (Iwata, Japan), Hiromasa Tamaki (Okazaki, Japan), Hidenori Itamoto (Tajimi, Japan), Muhammad Iqmal Abd Rahim (Okazaki, Japan) and Atsuo Sakai (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor control device controls a motor of a mechanical device. The motor control device includes a command value calculation unit that calculates a command value for controlling the motor, and a disturbance observer unit for estimating a disturbance applied to the mechanical device, based on th...