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US 11,901,769 B2Granted
Stator with piloting supports
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsFranco Leonardi, Brian Christian Orr, Joel Hetrick
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Abstract
A stator includes a plurality of same laminations each defining a piloting tab on a perimeter thereof, and stacked to form a stator body and such that the piloting tabs define at least two axially extending serrated edge portions spaced apart from one another around a perimeter of the stator body or at least two sets of axially aligned housing contact pads spaced apart from one another around the perimeter.
Claims7
An electric machine comprising:
- a housing;
- and
- a plurality of same laminations each defining a piloting tab on a perimeter thereof, and stacked to form a stator having a body disposed within the housing and such that the piloting tabs define at least two axially extending serrated edge portions, each defined by alternating presence and absence of the piloting tabs, spaced apart from one another around a perimeter of the stator and configured to contact the housing and space the body away from the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.