US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on June 2 for "Friction welded stator carrier" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,005, issued on June 2, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Friction welded stator carrier" was invented by Helder Bertolucci (Wooster, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a stator carrier for an electric motor includes forming a first end component, forming a second end component, forming an intermediate component, and joining axial end faces of the first and second end components to respective opposite axial end faces of the intermediate component. Joining the axial end faces is done by friction or laser welding to form welds or weld regions between the components."

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