US Patent Issued to Nidec Motor on May 13 for "Adaptive speed control system and method for adapting motor control to changing load conditions" (Taiwanese, Greek Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,688, issued on May 13, was assigned to Nidec Motor Corp. (St. Louis).

"Adaptive speed control system and method for adapting motor control to changing load conditions" was invented by Athanasios Sarigiannidis (Athens, Greece), Bo-Ting Lyu (Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Chieh Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Shih-Chin Yang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptive speed control system and method for adapting control of an electric motor under a changing load condition. A load torque observer determines a load torque value when the motor is operating at a constant speed, and the load torque value is used to adapt a torque. An inertia o...