US Patent Issued to AUDI on Nov. 4 for "Exciter circuit for an externally excited synchronous machine, motor vehicle, and method for de-exciting an exciter winding" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,579, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Exciter circuit for an externally excited synchronous machine, motor vehicle, and method for de-exciting an exciter winding" 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, including voltage supply terminals for a voltage supply, exciter current terminals to be connected to an exciter winding of the synchronous machine, a bridge circuit hooked up to the voltage supply terminals, a controller and a protective layout at the side with the exciter current terminals, includ...