US Patent Issued to Beckhoff Automation on Jan. 28 for "Planar drive system, method for operating a planar drive system, and stator for driving a rotor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,191, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).

"Planar drive system, method for operating a planar drive system, and stator for driving a rotor" was invented by Lukas Bentfeld (Delbruck, Germany), Rolf Brinkmann (Bad Salzuflen, Germany), Patrick Jebramcik (Gutersloh, Germany) and Tim Kaulmann (Paderborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planar drive system comprises a stator and a rotor. The stator comprises a plurality of stator conductors. The rotor comprises a magnet device comprising at least one rotor magnet. The stator is configured to energize the stator conductors. A magnetic interac...