ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,495, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Electric pump rotor" was invented by Yuji Minemura (Kariya, Japan), Shuji Hattori (Kariya, Japan) and Feng Li (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric pump rotor includes: a permanent magnet; a cylindrical rotor core that holds the permanent magnet; an adjacent member that is provided adjacent to one side in an axial direction of the permanent magnet and the rotor core; and a resin molded portion in which a drive unit that covers the permanent magnet, the rotor core, and the adjacent member, and a blade portion that pressure-feeds a working fluid a...