US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Sept. 8 for "Linear rotary motor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,079, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Linear rotary motor" was invented by Yuichiro Nakamura (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Sekiguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A linear rotary motor includes: a frame; a stator including a linear motion coil and a rotation coil; and a mover including a shaft and a magnet, the shaft including an output shaft. The linear motion coil and the rotation coil is energized to cause the mover to move rectilinearly and rotate. A linear motion detector is disposed on the frame or the stator in such a way as to face the magnet, and detects a position of the mover in a linea...