ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,743, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NIDEC PSA EMOTORS (Carrieres sous Poissy, France).

"End shield and rotor for a rotary electric machine" was invented by Jean Baptiste Roux (Vaux sur Seine, France), Juan Wang (Vernouillet, France) and Ioan Deac (Poissy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an end shield (10) for a rotary electric machine, including one or more feed channels (12) for feeding a coolant supplied from a channel formed in a rotor lamination stack (8) or in a shaft of the rotor (1) or between the rotor lamination stack and the shaft, wherein at least one feed channel (12) includes a ...