ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,048, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Buhler Motor GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany).
"Method for starting a rotor of a claw pole motor" was invented by Igor Pepelyaev (Nuremberg, Germany), Soren Rebel (Nuremberg, Germany), Tobias Roth (Gunzenhausen, Germany) and Thomas Peterreins (Nuremberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for starting up a rotor of a single-phase claw-pole motor, wherein the claw-pole motor comprises a permanently excited rotor which executes a movement in a running direction in nominal operation, an electronically commutated stator and a Hall sensor for determining the relative rotor position, wherein th...