ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,181, issued on May 12, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Motor apparatus, compressor, and refrigeration apparatus" was invented by Daisuke Hiratsuka (Osaka, Japan) and Hiroshi Hibino (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor apparatus includes a casing, a stator disposed in the casing, a rotor disposed on an inner circumference of the stator, a shaft disposed on an inner circumference of the rotor, a functional part disposed on an outer circumference of a first member, and a heat-resistant part disposed between the functional part and a second member. The first member is the stator or the shaft. The se...