US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Jan. 13 for "Multipurpose gasket for a rigid coil in a switched reluctance motor" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,298, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Multipurpose gasket for a rigid coil in a switched reluctance motor" was invented by Brian R. Janes (Chillicothe, Ill.) and Andrew A. Friebohle (Pekin, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gasket includes a rectangle formed from a sheet of material for placement over a pole of a stator, the rectangle including: a first side opposite a third side of equal length; a second side opposite a fourth side of equal length; pluralities of inner tabs disposed on the inner edges of the first and third sides, each inner tab being bent downward at a first angle to a plane ...