ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,003, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to FERRARI S.P.A. (Modena, Italy).
"Rotor for a rotary electric machine" was invented by Davide Ferrara (Modena, Italy), Paolo Faverzani (Modena, Italy) and Luca Poggio (Modena, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor for a rotary electric machine and having: a support cylinder, which has an outer surface and a central cavity; a plurality of permanent magnets, which are axially oriented, rest on the outer surface of the support cylinder and are arranged beside one another around a rotation axis to form a closed ring; and two side discs, which are fixed at the axially opposite ends of the supp...