ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,380, issued on June 24, was assigned to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh) and U.S. Department of Energy (Pittsburgh).
"Axial flux motor" was invented by Satoru Simizu (Pittsburgh), Paul Richard Ohodnicki Jr. (Allison Park, Pa.) and Michael Edward McHenry (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an axial flux motor including a rotor having a wound ribbon core, the wound ribbon core including a metal amorphous nanocomposite material. The axial flux motor further includes a stator assembly spaced apart from the rotor along a rotation axis of the rotor. The stator assembly includes a body including a metal amorphous n...