US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on June 24 for "Hybrid interlock and adhesive rotor cores" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,382, issued on June 24, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Hybrid interlock and adhesive rotor cores" was invented by Shailesh Shrikant Kozarekar (Novi, Mich.), Dexiang Dallis Sun (Troy, Mich.), Joel Hetrick (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Devan James Anderson (Taylor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stacked plurality of alternating laminations and adhesive layers of a rotor are arranged such that each of the adhesive layers bonds an outer periphery of an adjacent pair of the laminations together. Each of the laminations includes a plurality of interlocks, disposed about a central region of the lamination ...