US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Feb. 17 for "Rotary electric machine with reduced weight and coupling portions having improved rigidity" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,049, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Rotary electric machine with reduced weight and coupling portions having improved rigidity" was invented by Manabu Yazaki (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor of a rotary electric machine includes a rotor core. The rotor core is a stacked body in which a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets are stacked. In the electromagnetic steel sheet, a plurality of through holes are formed between an inner annular portion and an outer annular portion. The inner annular portion and the outer annular portion that are separated via the through holes are coupl...