US Patent Issued to Siemens on May 13 for "Method for determining an air gap between a transport rotor and a stator segment aided by an automation device" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,064, issued on May 13, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method for determining an air gap between a transport rotor and a stator segment aided by an automation device" was invented by Tobias Binkert (Heroldsbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining an air gap between a transport rotor and a stator segment, wherein an acceleration run of the transport rotor is performed and, here, the present stator current is measured and actual speed values are determined, from which a change in speed per time unit is determined, and from which an acceleration is determined, where the present propulsion force is dete...