ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,049, issued on March 24.
"Synchronous reluctance motor with magnetic flux barriers" was invented by Pei-Chun Shih (Taipei City, Taiwan), Ta-Yin Luo (Taipei City, Taiwan), Kuan Yang (Taipei City, Taiwan), Sheng-Chan Yen (Taipei City, Taiwan), Guo-Jhih Yan (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Cheng-Tsung Liu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synchronous reluctance motor includes magnetic barriers in each magnetic barrier group of a rotor core, each having a shape which protrudes toward a radial inner side and is symmetrical about a q-axis. A portion closer to a circumferential side than the q-axis includes a first portion exten...