US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Dec. 9 for "Controller for actuating a redundant actuator comprising two sub-actuators" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,929, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Controller for actuating a redundant actuator comprising two sub-actuators" was invented by Rene Hopperdietzel (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for actuating a motor with two separate windings. The controller includes: i) a first actuator connection having three first phase connections, (i) a second actuator connection having three second phase connections, iii) a first converter having three first phase outputs, iv) a second converter having three second phase outputs, v) a third converter having three...