US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 10 for "Magnetically insulating stator liner system with insulator having ferrimagnetic material and a wedge" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,042, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Magnetically insulating stator liner system with insulator having ferrimagnetic material and a wedge" was invented by Leyi Zhu (Novi, Mich.) and Franco Leonardi (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stator includes a core and a molded midsection arranged to define a plurality of slots. The stator also includes a plurality of conductors wound within the slots. Portions of the midsection immediately adjacent to the slots include magnetic insulator embedded therein. The magnetic insulator is electrically insulating and has ferrimagnetic ...