US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on Sept. 23 for "Electric motor with integrated heat exchanger" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,896, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Electric motor with integrated heat exchanger" was invented by Elham Maghsoudi (Pasadena, Calif.), Jay D. Jasper (Pasadena, Calif.), Benjamin I. Furst (Pasadena, Calif.) and Scott N. Roberts (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for integrating a heat exchanger in an electric motor (EM) system that includes a stator and a rotor are presented. An oscillating heat pipe (OHP) is provided within a housing of the EM system. The OHP includes channel segments with a sealed working fluid. According to another aspec...