US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Nov. 3 for "Mounting arrangement for integrated motor-drive" (North Carolina, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,233, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Mounting arrangement for integrated motor-drive" was invented by Christoph Kammer (Raleigh, N.C.), William J. Eakins (Coventry, Conn.) and Eddy C. Aeloiza (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated motor-drive includes an electric motor, a drive unit, and a cantilevered heatsink that connects the drive unit to the motor frame of the electric motor. The cantilevered heatsink can include a drive platform that supports and separates the drive unit with respect to the top of the motor frame by a heatsink air gap in a cantilevered arrangement. The ca...