US Patent Issued to KUKA Deutschland on July 14 for "Method for controlling at least one servomotor in a braking manner, robot, and computer program product" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,525, issued on July 14, was assigned to KUKA Deutschland GmbH (Germany).

"Method for controlling at least one servomotor in a braking manner, robot, and computer program product" was invented by Josef Hofmann (Wolferstadt, Germany) and Hartmut Keyl (Augsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling at least one servomotor in a braking manner with a frequency converter includes disconnecting a direct-voltage intermediate circuit from an electric alternating-voltage network, braking the servomotor by controlling semiconductor switches of an inverter circuit in a regenerative braking mode in order to reduce the s...