US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Systems and methods for rotor shaft grounding" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,512, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for rotor shaft grounding" was invented by Vincent T Skalski (Plymouth, Mich.), Shailesh Kozarekar (Novi, Mich.) and Brian Richard Light (Howell, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for grounding a rotor of an electric machine. The electric machine system includes a rotor shaft, a grounding cover coupled to an end of the rotor shaft, and a cam aligned with a rotational axis of the rotor shaft and electrically coupled to the grounding cover. The electric machine system further includes an end plate of a hou...