US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong on March 24 for "Wireless in-wheel motor drive and method for optimizing the same" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,311, issued on March 24, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Wireless in-wheel motor drive and method for optimizing the same" was invented by Xin Chen (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Chi Kong Tse (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a wireless soft-switching in-wheel motor drive system and a method for realizing the same. The method comprises pre-misaligning the primary winding and the secondary winding of a magnetic coupler of the in-wheel motor drive system for an angular offset such that an input impedance of the resonant compensation network of the in-w...