US Patent Issued to LaunchPoint Electric Propulsion Solutions on May 27 for "Fault-tolerant axial-gap permanent-magnet electric machine" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,179, issued on May 27, was assigned to LaunchPoint Electric Propulsion Solutions Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Fault-tolerant axial-gap permanent-magnet electric machine" was invented by Brian J. Clark (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Michael R. Ricci (Camarillo, Calif.), David B. Paden (Goleta, Calif.) and Bradley E. Paden (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An axial flux electrical machine has a permanent magnet rotor fixedly mounted on a rotating shaft and at least one stator having a plurality of polyphase windings disposed along a common axis with the shaft. An insulation layer is fixed between the polyphase windings. In a first ex...