US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on July 8 for "Electrical machine cooling with axial and radial inlets and outlets" (Wisconsin, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,328, issued on July 8, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Electrical machine cooling with axial and radial inlets and outlets" was invented by Bulent Sarlioglu (Madison, Wis.), Gregory F. Nellis (Waunakee, Wis.), Leyue Zhang (Madison, Wis.) and Hao Ding (Carson, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical machine includes a rotor, a stator, and a winding mounted within a housing. The rotor includes a rotor core mounted to a shaft and a plurality of blades extending radially away from the rotor core. Each blade of the plurality of blades is curved axially along the rotor core. The stator incl...