ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,425, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Flender GmbH (Bocholt, Germany).
"Laminated core segment and method for producing same" was invented by Helmut Adlfinger (Nuremberg, Germany), Andreas Lindmeier (Ruhstorf, Germany), Dominik Ratzisberger (Kosslarn, Germany), Andreas Jockel (Nuremberg, Germany) and Franz Xaver Michael Schober (Neukirchen vorm Wald, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laminated-core segment includes a plurality of axially layered metal sheets. Each metal sheet includes a yoke having grooves, teeth, and a yoke rear which connects the teeth, with at least some of the teeth having axially aligned recesses on a gro...