US Patent Issued to MINEBEA MITSUMI on June 23 for "Motor with stator segments having coupling parts with recesses and gaps" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,448, issued on June 23, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI INC. (Nagano, Japan).

"Motor with stator segments having coupling parts with recesses and gaps" was invented by Yutaka Kamogi (Kitasaku-gun, Japan) and Yutaka Kouyama (Kitasaku-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor of an embodiment includes a rotor and a stator. The stator includes a plurality of segments. The segment includes a plurality of pieces coupled via a coupling part. The plurality of pieces are disposed in an arc shape. The plurality of segments are disposed in an annular shape. The coupling part includes a first recess part, a pair of opposing surfaces hav...