ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,260, issued on May 6, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Electric machine, displacement device for an electric machine, and powertrain for a motor vehicle" was invented by Holger Witt (Buhl, Germany), Christoph Raber (Ottweiler-Steinbach, Germany), Dennis Kuhl (Buhl, Germany) and Christian Morgen (Haueneberstein, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric machine designed as a permanently excited synchronous machine, including a rotor with a rotor body arranged on a rotor shaft, a stator, and a displacement device that generates a relative axial movement between the rotor body and ...