Patents by Inventor Malcolm W. Waite

Malcolm W. Waite has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4389586
    Abstract: The magnet frame of a dynamoelectric machine comprises a removable, generally cylindrical inner member concentrically disposed inside a cylindrical outer member. The inner member is supported in a cantilever fashion at only one of its ends, and most of its outside surface is normally separated by a relatively small circumferential gap from the cooperating inside surface of the outer member. The outer member of the frame rotatably supports the hub of a motorized wheel, which hub is coupled via a torque tube and gearing to a rotor inside the inner member. Conventional means is provided in the inner member for producing a field of magnetic flux in both the magnet frame and the rotor, and the path of this flux will include parallel branches in the inner and outer frame members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1983
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: David L. Foster, John F. Haupt, Malcolm W. Waite