US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on May 12 for "Electric motor rotor with circulated air cooling" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,188, issued on May 12, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Electric motor rotor with circulated air cooling" was invented by Shawn H. Swales (Canton, Mich.), Rebecca K. Risko Cattell (Royal Oak, Mich.), Neal Parsons (Novi, Mich.), Edward L. Kaiser (Orion, Mich.), Matthew James Bozich (Warren, Mich.) and Nicholas Mark Sulimirski (Livonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor for an electric machine includes an air circulation cooling system. The rotor includes a rotor core having cavities internal to the rotor core. The rotor core extends longitudinally between two ends. The cavities are defined by t...