ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,035, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Power inductor thermal management" was invented by John Casci (Westland, Mich.), Moon Young Lee (Livonia, Mich.), Baoming Ge (Okemos, Mich.) and Fan Wang (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power inductor includes windings having a first coil defining an axially extending cavity and a core have at least first and second core segments extending axially through at least a portion of the cavity. The segments are radially spaced from each other to define a molding channel. Molding is disposed in the molding channel and configured to urge th...