US Patent Issued to Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur on May 19 for "Heating circuit for a motor vehicle comprising an electrical traction machine" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,865, issued on May 19, was assigned to Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur (Creteil Cedex, France).

"Heating circuit for a motor vehicle comprising an electrical traction machine" was invented by Khadija El Baraka (Creteil Cedex, France) and Svetislav Jugovic (Creteil Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for heating a coolant of an electrical traction machine of a motor vehicle, the electrical machine including, in addition to the coolant, a stator including a polyphase winding, the stator being in heat exchange with the coolant, a rotor, and an inverter/rectifier supplying power to the polyphase winding. The inverter/...