US Patent Issued to Timken Gears & Services on March 3 for "DC motor and interpole coil replacement method" (Virginia, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,786, issued on March 3, was assigned to Timken Gears & Services Inc. (King of Prussia, Pa.).

"DC motor and interpole coil replacement method" was invented by Buddy L. Price (Bluefield, Va.) and Jan Hendrik de Swardt (Eustis, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of replacing a failed interpole coil on a DC motor field frame having integral interpole coil cores. The failed interpole coil is removed from the interpole coil core of the field frame. A new interpole coil, separate from the corresponding interpole coil core, is wound to replace the failed interpole coil, the new interpole coil including conductor turns and insulatio...