ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,534, issued on April 15, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"Stator for an electric machine and method for applying a hairpin winding to a stator body" was invented by Korbinian Weber (Ingolstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stator for an electric machine having a stator body and an applied hairpin winding and having conductors for a plurality of phases. A respective pole of the respective phase is formed by a plurality of groups of groove portions each of which including groove portions which are arranged in a group of grooves of adjacent grooves in the same layer of the hairpin winding, the conductor clips w...