US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on June 9 for "Synchronous reluctance motor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,938, issued on June 9, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Synchronous reluctance motor" was invented by Yu Hamada (Tokyo), Moriyuki Hazeyama (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Mitsuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synchronous reluctance motor includes a shaft, a rotor, a stator, and multiple magnetic wedges. The stator radially opposes the rotor with a space therebetween. The stator includes a stator core having multiple slots arranged in the circumferential direction and open toward the rotor, and multiple stator coils disposed in the multiple slots. Multiple magnetic wedges close at least some of the multiple slots with ...