US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 5 for "Power inductor with internal cooling passages" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,027, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Power inductor with internal cooling passages" was invented by John P. Casci (Westland, Mich.), Moon Young Lee (Livonia, Mich.), Baoming Ge (Okemos, Mich.) and Fan Wang (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power inductor includes a magnetic core having first and second legs and opposing first and second curved sections, a conductor having a first coil around the first leg and a second coil around the second leg; and a fluid circuit having a first branch disposed between the first leg and the first coil and a second branch disposed between ...