ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,767, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Electric machine" was invented by Alexandre Fischer (Strasbourg, France) and Tim Schmid (Malsch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric machine, having a stator and a rotor arranged rotatably in the stator (3), and an end shield arranged non-rotatably with respect to the stator for mounting the rotor therein. The end shield extends at least partially along a radial plane orthogonal to the rotor axis of rotation. The stator is connected to a stator support which extends orthogonal to the axis. The end shield and the stator...