ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,242, issued on May 6, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Cooling system for an electric machine" was invented by Bassel Assaad (Saint Cyr L'ecole, France) and Edouard Negre (Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling system cools an electric machine including a casing, a rotor rotatably supported by the casing, and a stator fixed to the casing. The cooling system includes a flow circuit that brings a cooling liquid into contact with active parts of the electric machine. A main reservoir is provided in a lower portion of the casing. A pump injects the cooling liquid into the flow cir...