ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,780, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Electric axial flux machine" was invented by Christoph Raber (Ottweiler-Steinbach, Germany), Rene Daikeler (Sasbach, Germany) and Shen Ding (Achern, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric axial flux machine having a stator with first and second stator elements arranged spaced apart axially from one another, and a rotor with a rotor body arranged on a rotor shaft, in the form of a disk and arranged axially between the first and second stator elements, the first and second stator elements being arranged movably in the axi...