US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on April 1 for "Thermal bridge for an electric machine" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,997, issued on April 1, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Thermal bridge for an electric machine" was invented by Jian Yao (Shanghai), Chengwu Duan (Shanghai), SeungHwan Keum (Northville, Mich.) and Denghao Fan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric machine includes a housing having an inner surface; and a stator including a stator core mounted in the housing. The stator core includes a plurality of stator windings, a thermal bridge extends between the stator core and the inner surface of the housing. The thermal bridge is formed from a non-magnetic material and includes a plurality of indi...