US Patent Issued to Black & Decker on Aug. 25 for "Compact outer-rotor brushless motor for a power tool" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,329, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Compact outer-rotor brushless motor for a power tool" was invented by Yuming Zhou (Yangzhou City, China), Tong Zheng (Suzhou City, China), Hunk Liu (Suzhou, China), Paik Gu (Suzhou, China) and Timothy W. French (Hampstead, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor is provided including a motor housing, an end cap secured to an open end of the motor housing, a stator, a rotor shaft, a rotor mounted on the rotor shaft; and a positional sensor circuit board including position sensors in magnetic interface with the rotor. The end cap includes a radial bod...