US Patent Issued to SKF Magnetic Mechatronics on Jan. 27 for "Device for controlling a magnetic bearing and associated system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,105, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SKF Magnetic Mechatronics (Saint-Marcel, France).

"Device for controlling a magnetic bearing and associated system" was invented by Andre Deandrade (Vernon, France) and Lakdar Sadi-Haddad (Nogent sur Marne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device (24) for controlling a magnetic bearing (22) includes an axis with two electromagnets (26, 28) diametrically opposed. The device (24) includes two power converters per axis of the magnetic bearing. Each power converter supplies one different electromagnet. The device includes eight power devices (40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54) arranged in a fir...