US Patent Issued to The Timken on May 6 for "Mechanical strength of connection of wound rotor generator/motor" (Florida, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,254, issued on May 6, was assigned to The Timken Co. (North Canton, Ohio).

"Mechanical strength of connection of wound rotor generator/motor" was invented by Jan de Swardt (Eustis, Fla.), Randall W. Russell (Kennewick, Wash.) and Nathaniel Z. N. Glessner (Pasco, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor of a wound rotor motor/generator comprising a plurality of rotor windings including a line rotor coil and a star rotor coil. The rotor coil couples to an L-conductor having an L-shaped profile such that a portion of the L-conductor extends from the line rotor coil toward the star rotor coil. A line connector bar couples the L-condu...