ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,578, issued on July 29, was assigned to Schneider Toshiba Inverter Europe SAS (Pacy sur Eure, France).
"Method for detecting a structural fault of an electric motor" was invented by Alain Dutrey (Fontaine-sous-Jouy, France) and Said Talbi (Amiens, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a structural fault of an electric motor. The method includes: (i) acquiring a measurement signal of a physical parameter representative of the rotation of the electric motor, (ii) obtaining the high frequency component of the measurement signal, resulting in a corrected signal, (iii) applying a set of band-pass filters to the corr...