ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,639, issued on July 15, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Electrical radial flow machine and powertrain" was invented by Dennis Kuhl (Buhl, Germany), Holger Witt (Buhl, Germany) and Christoph Raber (Ottweiler-Steinbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric radial flow machine having a stator, a rotor body connected to a rotor shaft, and a spring element which applies a spring force to the rotor body in the axial direction such that in a first operating position, the rotor body is held in an axial position in which the overlap between opposing surfaces of the rotor body and t...