US Patent Issued to DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP on Sept. 23 for "Electric machine with axially displaceable rotor" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,915, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).

"Electric machine with axially displaceable rotor" was invented by Joachim Druant (Houthulst, Belgium) and Thibault Devreese (Ghent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for an electric machine. In example, an electric machine includes a stator that electromagnetically interacts with a rotor during electric machine operation. The electric machine further includes a first gear coupled to or included in a rotor shaft, a spring assembly coupled to a first side of the rotor and exerting a first axial force on the...