US Patent Issued to DANA TM4 ITALIA on July 14 for "Rotor interlocking elements and method for their manufacturing" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,471, issued on July 14, was assigned to DANA TM4 ITALIA S.R.L. (Arzignano, Italy).

"Rotor interlocking elements and method for their manufacturing" was invented by Walter Faedo (Vestenanova, Italy) and Pierpaolo Zulpo (Arzignano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for reducing ripple torque associated with internal bridges arranged within one or more barriers of a rotor lamination stack and increasing mechanical strength when the rotor lamination stack is configured without internal bridges. In one example, a rotor lamination stack includes at least one interlocking element arranged in one or more ...