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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 1998
Filed:
May. 06, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kah Seng Oo, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Paul Michael Suzio, Livonia, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02D / ; G01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
701102 ; 12333925 ; 36457101 ;
Abstract
This invention includes the method of calibrating an inductance position encoder for a variable reluctance motor including the steps of selectively positioning the motor to predetermined positions, detecting the readings from position encoder and averaging the readings to define encoder position and to produce a calibration for the motor.