Eric Hardt
19Patents
9h-index
10Co-inventors
65Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 21, 2000 → Apr 24, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6611117B1 | Drive circuit for a brushless DC motor | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 59 | Expired |
| US6801004B2 | System and method of controlling cooling fan speeds | Physics | 40 | Expired |
| US6725132B2 | Intelligent cooling fan | Physics | 40 | Expired |
| US6954684B2 | Intelligent cooling fan | Physics | 30 | Expired |
| US6931306B2 | System and method of designing cooling fans | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 24 | Expired |
| US7305316B2 | Microcontroller methods of improving reliability in DC brushless motors and cooling fans | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US7714524B2 | System and method for controlling multiple DC fans | Electricity | 12 | Active |
| US7117054B2 | System and method of designing cooling fans | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 12 | Expired |
| US6995532B2 | System and method of controlling cooling fan speeds | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US7202624B2 | Self calibrating fan | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 8 | Expired |
| US7676302B2 | System and method of operating a cooling fan | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 8 | Active |
| US7605556B2 | Microcontroller methods of improving reliability in DC brushless motors and cooling fans | Electricity | 7 | Active |
| US7711439B2 | Microcontroller methods of improving reliability in DC brushless motors and cooling fans | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US7889977B2 | Single output H-bridge drive | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US8374716B1 | System and method for reconfigurable fans | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US7521883B1 | Motor current shaping | Electricity | 1 | Expired |
| US7573220B2 | Self calibrating fan | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 1 | Active |
| US10153716B2 | Compensation for asymmetries in electrodynamics of BLDC type machines using hall sensors | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US7902777B2 | Method and system for motor oscillatory state detection | Electricity | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.