ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,884, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Graco Minnesota Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Transverse flux electric machine" was invented by Tyler K. Williams (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Thomas F. Janecek (Flagstaff, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transverse flux motor is formed by a stator portion and a rotor portion. The stator portion includes one or more phase assemblies formed by flux ring plates axially bracketing coil wire windings. The flux rings include teeth that magnetically interact with circumferentially opposed and adjacent teeth to form flux paths transverse to the axis of rotation of the rotor assembly."
The patent was filed ...