US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on March 24 for "Control device and method for controlling a power converter, and electrical drive system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,123, issued on March 24, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Control device and method for controlling a power converter, and electrical drive system" was invented by Helge Sprenger (Kornwestheim, Germany) and Thomas Zeltwanger (Asperg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an expanded control scheme for an electrical machine (2). In particular, it is provided to change specifically into a freewheeling state in the event that only a low torque or a low phase current is to be set at the electrical machine (2). In order to change into the freewheeling state, additionally the actual rotati...