ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,609, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to BorgWarner Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Rotor for an axial flux motor" was invented by Patrick Steingass (Alzey, Germany) and Frank Haase (Markdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor for an axial flux motor with a disk-shaped rotor plate, a plurality of permanent magnets and a holding structure. The disk-shaped rotor plate has a plurality of magnet receptacles, which are distributed in the circumferential direction and introduced into the rotor plate in the axial direction. The magnet receptacles are each defined by four inner side surfaces of the rotor plate. The plurality of perm...