US Patent Issued to E-Circuit Motors on Sept. 23 for "Planar stator configurations for axial flux machines" (Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,901, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to E-Circuit Motors Inc. (Needham Heights, Mass.).

"Planar stator configurations for axial flux machines" was invented by Steven Robert Shaw (Bozeman, Mont.) and George Harder Milheim (Bozeman, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, two or more different types of stator structures may be disposed within a gap of an axial flux machine. Such arrangements may be advantageous, for example, for producing a machine optimized for multiple modes of operation, such as mechanical torque generation, conversion of mechanical torque to electrical power, and/or dissipation of mechanical pow...