ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,574, issued on April 21, was assigned to MITSUBA Corp. (Gunma, Japan).
"Motor and fan device" was invented by Satoshi Nagamoto (Gunma, Japan), Keiichi Hosoi (Gunma, Japan), Minoru Ota (Gunma, Japan), Hiroshi Uehara (Gunma, Japan) and Tomohiko Mita (Gunma, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The motor includes a circuit board that controls the generation of a magnetic field for rotating a rotor by supplying currents to coils, and a slit terminal (60U) that electrically connects a winding wire to the circuit board. The slit terminal (60U) includes a pair of legs (63A, 63B) arranged to face each other across the winding wire (244U) at...