ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,885, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Nidec Motor Corp. (Creve Coeur, Mo.).
"Adaptive speed control system and method for adapting motor control to changing load conditions" was invented by Athanasios Sarigiannidis (Athens, Greece), Bo-Ting Lyu (Taipei City, Taiwan), Wei-Chieh Hsu (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Shih-Chin Yang (Taipei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptive speed control system and method for adapting control of an electric motor under a changing load condition. A load torque observer determines a load torque value when the motor is operating at a constant speed, and the load torque value is used to adapt a...