US Patent Issued to FANUC on Sept. 16 for "Motor control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,258, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Motor control device" was invented by Tetsuro Matsudaira (Yamanashi-ken, Japan), Yoshinori Sakai (Yamanashi-ken, Japan), Shuuji Kudou (Yamanashi-ken, Japan), Yoshikiyo Tanabe (Yamanashi-ken, Japan) and Toshihiro Fujimori (Yamanashi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor control device includes a DC/DC converter that steps up or steps down a voltage of a direct current power source and performs charging, while controlling an inrush current to a smoothing capacitor; a monitor circuit for the output of the DC/DC converter; and a control part that turns...