US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Jan. 28 for "Electric machine with a fixation of multiple rotor laminations to a rotor shaft, said fixation allowing an axial tolerance compensation" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,188, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Electric machine with a fixation of multiple rotor laminations to a rotor shaft, said fixation allowing an axial tolerance compensation" was invented by Alexandre Fischer (Strasbourg, France) and Thomas Fritz (Malsch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric machine for driving a motor vehicle includes a rotor having a central rotor shaft and a laminated core which is made of multiple rotor laminations and is fixed to the rotor shaft. The laminated core is contacted on at least one axial side by an end lamination which pr...