ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,876, issued on March 25.
"Electric turbocharger with cooling passages" was invented by Koji Sakota (Tokyo), Yuji Sasaki (Tokyo) and Shun Nakayama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric turbocharger includes an electric motor including a stator disposed annularly about a rotation axis, a first member thermally coupled with a first end face of the stator and forming a first cooling passage that extends around the rotation axis, and a second member thermally coupled with a second end face of the stator and accommodating a second cooling passage that extends around the rotation axis."
The patent was filed on May 24, 2023, un...