US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 4 for "Electric motor rotor assembly having magnet retention feature" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,762, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electric motor rotor assembly having magnet retention feature" was invented by Singar Rathnam (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Arun Rao Madharapu (Westland, Mich.), Matthew Schmitt (Southgate, Mich.) and Jacob Krizan (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor assembly includes a rotor core that defines a plurality of cavities and includes a plurality of laminations having annular bodies and stackably arranged to form the rotor core. The plurality of laminations includes a plurality of notch laminations and at least one tab lamination...