US Patent Issued to DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP on Jan. 27 for "Segmented electric motor with stator sections and rotor sections with clutches between rotors" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,400, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).

"Segmented electric motor with stator sections and rotor sections with clutches between rotors" was invented by Joachim Druant (Houthulst, Belgium) and Steven Vanhee (Hooglede, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for operating an electric motor including multiple rotor and stator sections. In one example, a system may include the multiple rotor sections configured to be mechanically coupled and decoupled from each other concurrently with multiple stator sections configured to be electrically coupled and decoup...