US Patent Issued to E-Circuit Motors on Jan. 27 for "Printed circuit board with integrated axial flux motor cooling apparatus" (Montana, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,411, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to E-Circuit Motors Inc. (Needham Heights, Mass.).

"Printed circuit board with integrated axial flux motor cooling apparatus" was invented by Steven Robert Shaw (Bozeman, Mont.), George Harder Milheim (Bozeman, Mont.) and Mark Puglia (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may include a host circuit board supporting a heat-producing electronic component, a rotor for an axial flux motor, and fan blades supported by the rotor. The host circuit board may include traces forming windings for the axial flux motor. The rotor may be supported by and rotatable relative to the host cir...