ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,968, issued on July 29, was assigned to Flender GmbH (Bocholt, Germany).
"Dynamoelectric rotary machine with a can" was invented by Andreas Jockel (Nuremberg, Germany) and Roland Zeichfussl (Ruhstorf a.d. Rott, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamo-electric rotary machine includes a rotor defining an axis, a stator, and a can designed for arrangement in an air gap between the rotor and the stator in order to seal the stator and the rotor in relation to each other. The can has at least one section of average electrical conductivity in a range from 1 S/m to 10000 S/m in an axial and/or a tangential direction. The can is elect...