H02K 21/026
Axial air gap machines
Official title: {Axial air gap machines}
H02K21/026 (Axial air gap machines) appears on 65 US grants and 77 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H02K- Granted patents
- 65
- Published applications
- 77
- Assignees
- 46
- Inventors
- 147
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 3 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Electric axial flux machine with pretensioned stator components, and electric machine assembly comprising such an electric axial flux machine15 Sep 2026US 12,738,824 B2Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
- Axial flux motor which is fixed to a housing and has an adjustment function18 Aug 2026US 12,712,419 B2Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
- Axial flux motor structure using magnetic levitation force and rotational force21 Apr 2026US 12,609,595 B2Hyundai Motor Company
- Electric axial flux machine21 Oct 2025US 12,451,780 B2Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
- Adjustable air gap axial flux motor7 Oct 2025US 12,438,426 B2GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Machine assembly with vertically-spaced levitation and axial adjustment actuators18 Jun 2026US 2026/0171880 A1
- Electric axial flux machine with pretensioned stator components, and electric machine assembly comprising such an electric axial flux machine17 Jul 2025US 2025/0233495 A1Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
- Method For Operating An Electric Motor13 Mar 2025US 2025/0088085 A1Vitesco Technologies GmbH
- Axial flux motor which is fixed to a housing and has an adjustment function26 Dec 2024US 2024/0429800 A1Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
- Electric axial flux machine11 Jul 2024US 2024/0235351 A9Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Air gap control systems and methods405US 10,193,429 B2Boulder Wind Power, Inc. · 2019
- Wind energy conversion system108US 7,098,552 B2WECS, Inc. · 2006
- Wind energy conversion system107US 6,952,058 B2WECS, Inc. · 2005
- Wind energy conversion system105US 7,116,006 B2WECS, Inc. · 2006
- Electric motor with active hysteresis-based control of winding currents and/or having an efficient stator winding arrangement and/or adjustable air gap65US 6,348,751 B1New Generation Motors Corporation · 2002