Abstract: Systems and methods for a temperature measurement device. A transmission includes a rotatable housing. The temperature measurement positioned on a transmission housing. The interior volume of the rotatable housing is partially filled with lubricant of transmission components residing within the interior volume of the housing. The temperature measurement device in contact with the lubricant and in communication with a device exterior to the transmission.

Abstract: Systems and methods for a temperature measurement device. A transmission includes a rotatable housing. The temperature measurement positioned on a transmission housing. The interior volume of the rotatable housing is partially filled with lubricant of transmission components residing within the interior volume of the housing. The temperature measurement device in contact with the lubricant and in communication with a device exterior to the transmission.

Abstract: A transmission in combination with a temperature measurement device and a device exterior to the transmission. The transmission includes a rotatable housing which drives a wheel of a vehicle, a wireless transceiver in communication with a thermistor embedded within molding, a battery embedded within the molding, and the molding resides within the housing. The temperature measurement device resides in a wall of the rotatable housing and the rotatable housing includes an interior volume. The interior volume of the rotatable housing is partially filled with oil for lubrication of transmission components residing within the interior volume of the housing. The temperature measurement device is rotated through the oil and out of the oil within the rotating housing when the rotating housing is in motion.

Abstract: A transmission in combination with a temperature measurement device and a device exterior to the transmission. The transmission includes a rotatable housing which drives a wheel of a vehicle, a wireless transceiver in communication with a thermistor embedded within molding, a battery embedded within the molding, and the molding resides within the housing. The temperature measurement device resides in a wall of the rotatable housing and the rotatable housing includes an interior volume. The interior volume of the rotatable housing is partially filled with oil for lubrication of transmission components residing within the interior volume of the housing. The temperature measurement device is rotated through the oil and out of the oil within the rotating housing when the rotating housing is in motion.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stator core of an electric machine is provided. The method comprises: inserting a motor winding into stator slots defined in the stator core; installing an insulating strip into each of the openings in each of stator slots; and installing a magnetically conductive retaining strip in conductive contact with the stator core at opposing sides of each the stator slots such that a conducting space is defined by the conducting strips. The motor windings are inserted into the stator slots through an opening without tooth tips of the stator slots. The conducting space is intermediate to each of the openings to restrict the openings to a predetermined dimension. The insulating strips prevent electrical conduction between the conducting strips and the motor windings.

Abstract: A liner for a stator of an electric machine is provided. The liner includes an insulating layer and a magnetically conducting layer. The insulating layer comprises a plurality of insulating strips, while the conducting layer comprises a plurality of conducting strips. The insulating and conducting layers are connected to each other in an alternating overlapping fashion to form a ribbon-like element. The ribbon-like element is connectable to the stator such that the insulating strips are positionable in winding slots of the stator and such that the conducting strips are mateable with the stator to cause a portion of the conducting strips to be across the openings in the stator.

Abstract: A park interlock device for a land-based vehicle including a driver-selectable shifter for selecting a respective one of the propulsion modes of the vehicle is provided. The device includes a generally elongated, hollowed body. The device further includes an actuating rod configured to be axially disposed in said hollowed body. The actuating rod is responsive to increments in linear motion produced when the shifter is set to a new propulsion mode. A detent assembly is configured to securely engage into a respective one of a plurality of notches in correspondence with a selected propulsion mode of the vehicle. A plunger is disposed at one end of the actuating rod.

Abstract: A composite powder metal rotor sleeve for slipping over a conventional rotor core to form a rotor assembly in an electric machine. The sleeve includes alternating magnetically conducting segments of sintered ferromagnetic powder metal and magnetically non-conducting segments of sintered non-ferromagnetic powder metal. A rotor assembly is also provided in which a rotor core of stamped laminations is attached to a shaft, and the composite sleeve of the present invention circumferentially surrounds the rotor core. There is further provided alternative methods of making an annular composite powder metal rotor sleeve of the present invention, including a compaction-sintering method, and injection molding method, and a sinterbonding method.