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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2014
Tesla Motors, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Edwin M. Pearce, Jr., San Francisco, CA (US);
Jim Robbins, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Heines, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David F. Nelson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Gary A. Pinkley, Lino Lakes, MN (US);
Michael Balsamo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Augusto E. Barton, Palo Alto, CA (US);
TESLA, INC., Palo Alto, unknown;
Abstract
An electric motor includes: a housing having a first rotor bearing and a stator support surface; a cantilever stator that includes a lamination stack, a first side of the lamination stack abutting the stator support surface and a second side of the lamination stack abutting a stator endbell that has a second rotor bearing, wherein the cantilever stator is held by way of tie rods attaching the stator endbell to the housing; and a rotor in the cantilever stator, the rotor held by the first and second rotor bearings.