US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Sept. 15 for "Seal for electric machine" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,811, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Seal for electric machine" was invented by Randall L. Long (Coffeyville, Kan.), Stacy K. Worley (Coffeyville, Kan.) and Cayle D. Harmon-Moore (Independence, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gap seal for an electric machine having a rotor rotatable about a rotation axis and separated from a stator by an annular gap. The gap seal includes an annular body defining a radial ring and an axial ring joined to the radial ring as a unitary part. The radial ring extending in a radial plane and the axial ring extending in a direction of the rotation axis. The radial...