ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,782, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Motor drive device provided with charging control unit" was invented by Sou Saito (Yamanashi, Japan) and Tsutomu Shikagawa (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor drive device includes: a converter that converts AC power supplied from an AC power source into DC power and outputs the DC power to a DC link; a capacitor installed in the DC link; an inverter that converts the DC power at the DC link into AC power for driving a motor and outputs the AC power; a charging circuit that has a charging resistor for preventing inrush current during the per...