ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,569, issued on March 18, was assigned to NIDEC GLOBAL APPLIANCE BRASIL LTDA. (Joinville, Brazil).
"Braking methods" was invented by Claudio Eduardo Soares (Joinville, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention refers to a rheostatic braking method, applied on a BLDC motor (10) used in hermetic compressors, comprising: selecting a first phase and a second phase, connected to the BLDC motor (10), which will be short-circuited, at a certain electric position of the BLDC motor (10), wherein the first phase and the second phase selected are the phases having the major induced voltage and the minor induced voltage at a certain e...