US Patent Issued to NIDEC ELESYS on March 18 for "Inverter device for capable of performing overheating protection to switching elements when driving electric motor and control method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,545, issued on March 18, was assigned to NIDEC ELESYS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Inverter device for capable of performing overheating protection to switching elements when driving electric motor and control method thereof" was invented by Hirotaka Yoshioka (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Katsumata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshiyuki Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides an inverter device for driving an electric motor, including: an inverter circuit including a plurality of switching elements; and a control circuit controlling the inverter circuit. When a rotation speed of the electric motor is equal to...