US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on March 18 for "Rotor having a support device, electric machine having a rotor, and motor vehicle having an electric machine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,498, issued on March 18, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Rotor having a support device, electric machine having a rotor, and motor vehicle having an electric machine" was invented by Markus Lang (Munich), Jerome Ragot (Munich) and Robert Schmidt (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor for an electric machine includes a rotor main body which has at least two poles between which in the circumferential direction of the rotor is disposed at least one pole gap, and a rotor shaft which is coupled in a rotationally fixed manner to the rotor main body. The rotor has a support device which has a covering body th...