US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on March 31 for "Rotor, method for manufacturing a rotor, and electric machine" (German, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,593, issued on March 31, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Rotor, method for manufacturing a rotor, and electric machine" was invented by Amelie Magnenet (Herrlisheim, France), Maximilian Nekola (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Dominik Knopp (Frankfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a rotor (1) for an electric machine (2), said rotor comprising a cylindrical rotor body (4) formed from a laminated rotor core (3) and having a plurality of pockets (5) for receiving rotor magnets (6), at least a first group (7) of pockets (5) extending in a substantially tangentia...