US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Oct. 7 for "Adjustable air gap axial flux motor" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,426, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Adjustable air gap axial flux motor" was invented by Jian Yao (Shanghai), Alan G. Holmes (Clarkston, Mich.), Chengwu Duan (Shanghai), Vincent Fedida (Shanghai) and Denghao Fan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An axial flux motor may include a stator, a rotor including a rotor frame and having a rotational axis, an axial air gap separating the stator and the rotor, the axial air gap corresponding to an axial position of the rotor frame, and at least one hydraulic actuator including a variable volume hydraulic fluid chamber defined within the ...