US Patent Issued to DENSO on Oct. 27 for "Rotating electric machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,690, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Rotating electric machine" was invented by Takahiro Nakayama (Kariya-city, Japan) and Ritsuro Hiramatsu (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotating electric machine includes: a rotor having a permanent magnet embedded in a magnet-receiving hole of a rotor core; a stator that applies a rotating magnetic field to the rotor; and a magnetic sensor that detects rotation information of the rotor. The permanent magnet has a folded shape that is convex inward in a radial direction of the rotor. The magnetic sensor is arranged to face the permanent magnet ...