US Patent Issued to Fisher & Paykel Appliances on Aug. 5 for "Direct-drive, axially flux oriented, electric motor assembly having primary heat conduction pathway from stator to bearing housing" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,439, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Appliances Ltd. (New Zealand).

"Direct-drive, axially flux oriented, electric motor assembly having primary heat conduction pathway from stator to bearing housing" was invented by Matheus Alexandre Bevilaqua (Auckland, New Zealand) and Russell Joseph Jackson (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric motor assembly suitable for use in a laundry washing machine or dryer or washer-dryer, is of the axial flux permanent magnet synchronous motor direct-drive type, with the stator coils carried by a rotor bearing housing component to provide a primary heat conduct...