Patent 7554249 was granted and assigned to Bosch (company) on June, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An electric motor, in particular a starter device for internal combustion engines in which a current-limiting electric resistor (57) with a negative temperature coefficient is connected at the beginning of the main current path (49) of an electromagnetically excitable rotor (53) of the electric motor (16). The electric resistor (57) contains at least one monocrystalline semiconductor.