US Patent Issued to DENSO on June 16 for "Rotor and rotating electric machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,747, issued on June 16, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Rotor and rotating electric machine" was invented by Fumiya Kawate (Kariya-city, Japan), Ritsuro Hiramatsu (Kariya-city, Japan) and Toshihiro Uchida (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor includes a plurality of rotor units disposed side by side in an axial direction. The plurality of rotor units each include a rotor core, a plurality of permanent magnets, a plurality of magnetic pole sections and a plurality of magnetic pole bordering sections. At least one of the rotor units has a displacement portion in an outer circumferential surface of the...