US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Electric machine cooling of stator end windings" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,035, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Electric machine cooling of stator end windings" was invented by Alan W. Smith (Indianapolis), Patrick Gore (Indianapolis) and Peter Gegg (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example electric machine includes a rotor and a stator. The stator includes a stator core defining a longitudinal axis and a plurality of stator end windings extending from the stator core along the longitudinal axis. Adjacent end windings of the plurality of stator end windings define a radial gap, and the radial gap is configured to allow a cooling ...