US Patent Issued to Novanta on Sept. 8 for "High speed axial air gap motor" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,052, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Novanta Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).

"High speed axial air gap motor" was invented by David Coulson (Radford, Va.), Elliot Helms (Carmichael, Calif.) and Jackson Lamb (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor includes a rotor having a pattern of permanent magnetic portions, and a stator disposed proximate to the rotor. In some arrangements, a stator housing of the stator has a segmented backplane formed of a plurality of metal segments in electrically non-conducting (or non-electrically conductive) thermal contact to provide for heat transfer from the forcer coils to a separate stator m...