US Patent Issued to NIDEC on Sept. 15 for "Motor control device and motor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,870, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NIDEC Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Motor control device and motor" was invented by Shuji Endo (Kyoto, Japan), Takashi Hattori (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshiaki Yamashita (Kyoto, Japan) and Sohei Miyake (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor control device that controls a motor includes a calculator to calculate angle information related to a rotation angle of a rotor of the motor based on an output from a magnetic sensor, and a corrector to correct the angle information calculated by the calculator. The magnetic sensor is a sensor that includes a magnetoresistance effect element and outputs si...