US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Tube with slot closure wedges for sealing the winding regions in electric machines with a direct slot cooling function" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,465, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Tube with slot closure wedges for sealing the winding regions in electric machines with a direct slot cooling function" was invented by Alexander Keune (Kappelrodeck, Germany), Thomas Hurle (Buhlertal, Germany), Jonas Kniel (Karlsruhe, Germany), Patrick Gramann (Renchen, Germany), Michael Heilmann (Karlsruhe, Germany), Niels Wehlau (Munich), Johann Sontheim (Andechs, Germany), Michael Menhart (Igling, Germany) and Johann Oswald (Eschenlohe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetic element for an electric machine, h...