ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,402, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Siemens Energy Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).
"Generator with high-pressure air cooling" was invented by Raul Ricardo Rico (Oviedo, Fla.), Christopher Lowry (McAdenville, N.C.), Joshua R. Brown (Concord, N.C.), Hyunkee Lee (Charlotte, N.C.), Tomas Valenta (Liberec, Czech Republic) and David Holland (Charlotte, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A generator rotor including a rotor shaft having a rotor slot includes a rotor winding at least partially disposed within the rotor slot and a wedge coupled to the rotor shaft and extending axially along the rotor shaft, the wedge positioned to inhibit radial mo...