ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,767, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ebm-papst St. Georgen GmbH & Co. KG (St. Georgen, Germany).
"External rotor device having integrated sensor system, and use" was invented by Michael Kisch (St. Georgen, Germany), Jens Loffler (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany) and Marcus Hellmann (Unterkirnach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an external rotor device with a rotor housing designed to receive at least one rotor and with at least one sensor magnet provided on the rotor housing. The sensor magnet is arranged/can be arranged in sensory correlation with and in a predefinable relative position relative t...