ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,183, issued on May 12, was assigned to KANZAKI KOKYUKOKI MFG. Co. LTD. (Amagasaki, Japan).

"Rotor unit and rotor main body for electric motor" was invented by Takahiro Morimoto (Osaka, Japan), Yuto Kimura (Osaka, Japan), Toshinobu Shinohara (Amagasaki, Japan), Hitoshi Adachi (Amagasaki, Japan), Kohei Okura (Amagasaki, Japan) and Tatsuya Kamada (Amagasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Problem] To provide a rotor unit that may effectively prevent detachment of a magnet with a holder while absorbing dimensional errors of a rotor main body and the magnet.[Solution] In the rotor unit according to the present invention, the holder ...