ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,451, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Outer rotor motor with rotor attachment member" was invented by Naoki Matsunaga (Wako, Japan) and Hiroshi Mizuguchi (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outer rotor type motor includes a rotor in which magnets are arranged on an inner circumferential surface of a cylindrical rotor yoke. The outer rotor type motor comprises: a motor shaft configured to rotatably support the rotor; and a rotor attachment member including a base end extended from an outer periphery of the motor shaft outward in a radial direction and an outer end formed from an outer periph...