US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on March 31 for "Closed-circuit rotor cooling arrangement and electric machine having same" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,613, issued on March 31, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Closed-circuit rotor cooling arrangement and electric machine having same" was invented by Randall L. Long (Coffeyville, Kan.) and Stacy K. Worley (Coffeyville, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor cooling arrangement is provided for an electric machine used in a drive train of a work vehicle. The electric machine has a housing containing a stator disposed within the housing in a fixed position about a rotation axis. The rotor cooling arrangement includes a rotor disposed within the housing about the rotation axis. The rotor has a series of rotor discs ...