ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,790, issued on March 3, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Magnetic flux modulated type magnetic gear" was invented by Kodai Okazaki (Tokyo) and Junji Kitao (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic flux modulated type magnetic gear includes a small number of poles mechanism which has a plurality of magnetic poles, a large number of poles mechanism which has more magnetic poles than the small number of poles mechanism, and a pole piece which is provided between the small number of poles mechanism and the large number of poles mechanism, wherein, in the magnetic pole of the large number of poles mechanism, a pe...