US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on June 16 for "Motor having cooling structure" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,766, issued on June 16, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Motor having cooling structure" was invented by Hyung Kwan Jang (Uijeongbu-si, South Korea), Hoo Dam Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Kyung Sik Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Jun Hyeok Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Tae Gyu Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Byung Ho Min (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor may include a stator with a coil disposed on an inner side thereof, a rotor at least partially surrounded by the coil and having an accommodation space in which a refrigerant for cooling the coil may be accomm...