US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 25 for "Electric machine stator and method for reducing torque ripple of electric machine" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,719, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electric machine stator and method for reducing torque ripple of electric machine" was invented by Chuan Deng (Nanjing, China), Yigang Yuan (Nanjing, China) and Guohua Du (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stator for an electric machine includes slots for accommodating windings, the slots having a slot neck portion and a filling portion and extending radially between an inner circumference and an outer circumference of the stator, and including regular slots and misplaced slots. The slot neck portion of the misplaced slots has a dim...