US Patent Issued to PRESTOLITE ELECTRIC (BEIJING), PRESTOLITE ELECTRIC (WEIFANG) on May 20 for "Hybrid excitation starter for internal combustion engine" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,602, issued on May 20, was assigned to PRESTOLITE ELECTRIC (BEIJING) Ltd. (Beijing) and PRESTOLITE ELECTRIC (WEIFANG) Ltd. (Weifang, China).

"Hybrid excitation starter for internal combustion engine" was invented by Shujie Zhu (Beijing), Bertram Fang (Beijing), Sunshine Qin (Beijing), Bill Wang (Beijing) and Will Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid excitation starter includes a machine housing, an armature, and an electrical excitation structure and a permanent magnet structure provided in the machine housing, and the electrical excitation structure includes a plurality of electrical excitation magnetic poles and e...