US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on March 17 for "Electrical machine having a conductive layer" (French, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,460, issued on March 17, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Sweden).

"Electrical machine having a conductive layer" was invented by Mathieu Hubert (Turin, Italy), Paul Feliciano (Saint Cyr-sur-Loire, France), Thomas Perrotin (Saint Roch, France) and Anthony Simonin (Tours, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical machine includes a non-rotating part, a rotating part, at least one bearing that includes a rotating ring and a non-rotating ring and supports the rotating part, a grounding brush fixed and secured to the non-rotating part, and having a free end extending towards the rotating ring of the bearing, and a conductive ...