US Patent Issued to AISIN on Aug. 11 for "Rotor for electric motor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,494, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Rotor for electric motor" was invented by Mio Ban (Kariya, Japan), Yasuhiro Kume (Kariya, Japan), Makoto Tsukahara (Kariya, Japan), Shoki Shimizu (Kariya, Japan) and Tsubasa Kobayashi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor extends towards the central axis of an electric motor rotation and is rotatably supported about the central axis of rotation. The rotor includes: permanent magnets arranged in its outer peripheral portion wherein N-poles and S-poles are alternately formed in the circumferential toward the rotor in the outer peripheral portion of th...