US Patent Issued to AUDI on Nov. 25 for "Exciter circuit for an externally excited synchronous machine and motor vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,178, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Exciter circuit for an externally excited synchronous machine and motor vehicle" was invented by Daniel Ruppert (Lenting, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exciter circuit for an externally excited synchronous machine, wherein the exciter circuit comprises power supply terminals connectable to a current source, exciter current terminals connectable to a rotor winding of a rotor of the synchronous machine, and a protection circuit which, in operation, connects conductively the power supply terminals when a triggering condition is fulfilled."

The patent wa...