ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,049, issued on June 10, was assigned to Hottinger Bruel & Kjaer GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany).
"Slot wedge for a stator of a dynamo-electric machine" was invented by Tobias Katzenberger (Bad Konigshofen STT Unteressfeld, Germany) and Bastian Plochmann (Neustadt an der Aisch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slot wedge of a dynamoelectric machine which includes a stator having axially extending slots and a winding system disposed in the slots, is configured to cover a corresponding one of the slots in a direction of an air gap and includes a first layer, and a second layer arranged in spaced-apart to the first layer at least in on...