US Patent Issued to MAHLE International on April 21 for "Rotor shaft and rotor for rotor position sensing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,580, issued on April 21, was assigned to MAHLE International GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Rotor shaft and rotor for rotor position sensing" was invented by Patrick Altherr (Stuttgart, Germany), Marius Ebli (Eichstaett, Germany) and Mario Mohler (Rosengarten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor shaft for a rotor of an electric machine is provided. The rotor shaft includes a hollow shaft extending along an axial direction that is rotatably mounted about an axis of rotation, which delimits a hollow shaft interior that can be flowed through by a coolant. Further, the rotor shaft includes a sensor device arranged in the hollow ...