US Patent Issued to Hamilton Sundstrand on Nov. 18 for "Mixed flux motor with integrated journal and thrust bearings" (Illinois, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,526, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Mixed flux motor with integrated journal and thrust bearings" was invented by Debabrata Pal (Hoffman Estates, Ill.) and Viktor Kilchyk (Lancaster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly includes a rotor shaft extending in an axial direction along a center axis of the assembly and a flange extending radially outward from the rotor shaft and circumferentially around the rotor shaft. An axial flux motor extends circumferentially around the rotor shaft. The axial flux motor includes an array of magnets, a stator support structure, and a plurali...