US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on March 25 for "Stator segment thermal bridging system for an axial flux motor" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,494, issued on March 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Stator segment thermal bridging system for an axial flux motor" was invented by Yusheng Zou (Northville, Mich.) and Jian Yao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An axial flux electric motor includes a stator including a stator segment having a support frame formed with an opening defined by a continuous edge. A stator winding segment is arranged in the opening of the stator segment. The stator winding segment has an outer surface. A thermal interface material (TIM) is disposed between the outer surface of the stator winding segment and the ...