US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 23 for "Adhesive mixture including hard magnetic material for e-machine rotor" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,891, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Adhesive mixture including hard magnetic material for e-machine rotor" was invented by Franco Leonardi (Dearborn Heights, Mich.), Chuanbing Rong (Canton, Mich.), Chun Tang (Canton, Mich.), Wanfeng Li (Novi, Mich.) and Michael W. Degner (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor for an electric machine includes a core comprised of stacked laminations that define pockets between a hub portion and a pole portion. Each of the pockets are configured to receive magnetic material and define center cavities between regions of magnetic material...