ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,117, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Cooling structure for rotary electric machine" was invented by Hironobu Sakamoto (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a cooling structure for a rotary electric machine, the rotary electric machine including a ring-shaped stator, a rotor that is disposed to face the stator and is rotatable about a rotation axis, and a coil end formed in a side portion in an axial direction of the stator. The cooing structure includes a coil end cover that covers the coil end, is provided so as to be able to store a coolant therein, and has a coolant int...