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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7274865 | General purpose 100% solid state drive for direct current rotary machines General purpose 100% solid state Direct Current drive for rotary DC machines with four quadrants operation. It is to say that allows the rotary DC machine to act like motor or generator in the two direction of possible rotation. In the first and third quadrant as mo... | 09/25/2007 |
| 6979979 | Gas turbine engine starter-generator exciter starting system and method including a capacitance circuit element A rotating electrical machine, such as an aircraft starter-generator, that includes an exciter that has its stator windings supplied with electrical power from a power supply. One or more switches are electrically coupled between the exciter stator winding and the p... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6909263 | Gas turbine engine starter-generator exciter starting system and method including a capacitance circuit element A rotating electrical machine, such as an aircraft starter-generator, that includes an exciter that has its stator windings supplied with electrical power from a power supply. One or more switches are electrically coupled between the exciter stator winding and the p... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6891346 | Commutation and velocity control system for a brushless DC motor A commutation and velocity control system of a brushless DC motor receives a velocity command signal and provides command signals to drive the brushless DC motor. The system includes a summer that receives the velocity command signal and a velocity feedback signal a... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6408130 | Electric drive system with an electronically commuted DC motor in order to reduce torque irregularities The invention relates to an electric drive device with a DC motor (2) comprising a control circuit with an electronic commutator (3). The invention is characterized in that a derivation of a control signal (V_i_ref) is obtained from an induced motor volta... | 06/18/2002 |
| 5841358 | Motor current status sensor A method and circuit design for establishing the operating status of a direct drive, multiple speed motor. More specifically, the invention furnishes a method for providing feedback to an air distribution system indicating first whether the system motor i... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5455885 | Method and apparatus for starting a sensorless polyphase DC motor in dual-coil mode and switching to single coil mode at speed A method and apparatus for operating a polyphase dc motor selectively in dual-coil or uni-coil commutation modes. The motor has a plurality of "Y" connected driving coils connected together at a center tap. Each driving coil has an input node at an end op... | 10/03/1995 |