ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,218, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Moteurs Leroy-Somer (France).
"Stator for a rotating electrical machine" was invented by Michael Leo McClelland (Champniers, France), Eric Coupart (Angouleme, France) and Thierry Chassara (Balzac, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary electric machine includes a stator housed in a housing, the stator having a stator body formed by a stack of stator laminations, the laminations are generally non-circular and being angularly offset with respect to each other, so as to form spaces with the housing, the housing having ducts for the flow of a coolant, and said spaces also being used for t...