ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,651, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MITSUBISHI GENERATOR Co. LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Short-circuit detection device for rotating electric machine, and short-circuit detection method" was invented by Yuji Takizawa (Tokyo), Atsushi Yamamoto (Tokyo), Susumu Maeda (Tokyo) and Nobuaki Muroki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A short-circuit detection device for a rotating electric machine sets an order lower than a fundamental order of a slot harmonic wave as a threshold value, and reduces, among the plurality of frequency components, even-order frequency components having orders higher than the threshold value and odd-order frequen...