US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on Aug. 19 for "Method for manufacturing a rotor for an electrical machine with an axial fixing of a laminated core by means of friction welding, as well as a rotor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,050, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for manufacturing a rotor for an electrical machine with an axial fixing of a laminated core by means of friction welding, as well as a rotor" was invented by Thomas Albrecht (Memmingerberg, Germany), Kai Beutling (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Cornelius Hentrich (Waiblingen, Germany), Ulrich Schweizer (Wangen, Germany), Rainer Sigle (Leutenbach, Germany), Andreas Wanke (Schorndorf, Germany) and Felix Zehren (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a rotor for an electrical machine having a rotor support and a la...