ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,082, issued on July 1, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"Fluid cooled stator with grooves in stator core" was invented by Mark Allen Garety (Metamora, Ill.), Matthew Elliott Giannis (Peoria, Ill.) and Josh W. Dorothy (Dunlap, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stator is disclosed. The stator has a stator core that has stator poles protruding in a radial direction and a stator. The stator core has an axial groove formed on its outer surface along a longitudinal axis that is used to direct a cooling fluid from a first end of the stator core towards a second end of the stator core that is opposite the first end. Furthe...