ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,016, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Electric motor cooling apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Inano (Miyoshi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric motor cooling apparatus applied to an electric motor mounted as a driving force source on a vehicle. The electric motor has a stator core and a stator coil wound around the stator core, the electric motor cooling apparatus ejects coolant toward the stator coil. The electric motor cooling apparatus comprises a cooling pipe disposed above the electric motor in direction of a vertical line in on-vehicle state. The cooling pipe has an eject...