ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,471, issued on June 23, was assigned to GKN Automotive Ltd. (Birmingham, Great Britain).
"Electric drive assembly with cooling" was invented by Torsten Tietgen (Overath, Germany) and Simon Broicher (Hurth, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive assembly has a housing, an electric machine with a stator having a stator core and winding heads, a rotor being connected to a rotor shaft, a transmission rotationally drivable by the rotor shaft, and at least one fluid distribution element for supplying coolant to one of the winding heads. The fluid distribution element at least partially covers an upper part of the winding ...