ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,693, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Gates Corp. (Denver).
"Permanent magnet rotor for an axial flux motor" was invented by Vigel Russalian (Macomb, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An axial flux motor water pump comprising a housing, a cover attached to the housing, a stator mounted within the housing, the stator comprising a plurality of stator poles mounted in a ring, each stator pole comprising an electric wire winding, a rotor journaled to the housing in cooperating relation to the stator on a single bearing, an impeller fixed to an end of the rotor, a plurality of magnets mounted to an end of the rotor in cooperative relat...