ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,096, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Borg Warner Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Reluctance machine" was invented by Andre Becker (Bann, Germany), Thomas Glass (Rockenhausen, Germany) and Kai Homann (Mainz, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reluctance machine has a stator (3) and a rotor (1). The rotor (1) comprises an encapsulated body (17), which can rotate about an axis of rotation (15) of the rotor (1), and a plurality of flow guide segments (19). The flow guide segments (19) form poles of the rotor (1), are arranged in a circumferential direction about the axis of rotation (15), and are embedded in the encapsulated body (...