ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,715, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Winding mat for an electric machine" was invented by Christian Morgen (Haueneberstein, Germany), Dennis Kuhl (Buhl, Germany) and Alexander Lepold (Esslingen am Neckar, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamo electric machine stator which is easy to assemble, includes a stator body with stator grooves and a winding mat with groove sections arranged in the stator grooves and lie one over the other in different radial positions, and with head sections which connect the groove sections. A wave winding conductor changes position...