ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,808, issued on May 19, was assigned to Innomotics GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany).
"Slot wedge, tool and method for simultaneously installing a winding and the slot wedge" was invented by Michael Bernhardt (Bad Neustadt, Germany), Vladislav josiek (Havirov, Czech Republic) and Klaus Kirchner (Ostheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slot wedge for a slot in a stator of a dynamoelectric machine, wherein the slot wedge is formed as a longitudinally extending strip of insulating material, where the strip is provided with a punched portion."
The patent was filed on July 16, 2021, under Application No. 18/028,611.
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