US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 1 for "Electric machine end winding design without conductor overlap" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,099, issued on July 1, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electric machine end winding design without conductor overlap" was invented by Becky Sue Morris (Canton, Mich.) and Franco Leonardi (Dearborn Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric machine includes a stator core defining slots having a number of radial positions. A winding is disposed in the core and has three phases, each of the phases having at least two parallel paths including hurdle-shaped conductors interconnected to form at least two continuous circuits between a terminal and a neutral. Each of the hurdle-shaped conductors...