ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,059, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).
"Motor" was invented by Koji Kebukawa (Nagano, Japan) and Katsutoshi Suzuki (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The motor includes a shaft, a cartridge including a plurality of bearings that support the shaft, and a sleeve that surrounds the bearings, and a housing including a bottom portion for receiving an impact from outside and an attaching portion provided in the bottom portion. The bottom portion of the housing extends in a direction intersecting with respect to a longitudinal direction of the shaft, and the cartridge is removably attached t...