ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,036, issued on June 10, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Electric machine rotor" was invented by Matthew Schmitt (Southgate, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor is disclosed for an eMachine of an electric vehicle. The rotor includes a plurality of laminations stacked together to form a motor core. The laminations define a plurality of shaft segment openings and a plurality of magnet retaining openings that are axially aligned, and extend parallel to an axis of rotation of the motor core. A plurality of shaft segments are received in the shaft segment openings that extend through the plurality ...