US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Sept. 1 for "Electric motor with airgap and stator slot cooling" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,080, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Electric motor with airgap and stator slot cooling" was invented by Xiaofeng Yang (Troy, Mich.), Alireza Fatemi (Canton, Mich.), Derek F. Lahr (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Peng Peng (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric motor includes a stator having windings disposed within winding slots. The stator includes a radially inner stator core surface, a radially outer stator surface, and at least one stator passage extending radially a first distance from the inner stator core surface. A rotor is mounted inside the stator and includes at...