ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,204, issued on May 12, was assigned to MITSUI HIGH-TEC INC. (Fukuoka, Japan).
"Laminated iron core and laminated iron core manufacturing method" was invented by Go Kato (Fukuoka, Japan), Yasutaka Ohba (Fukuoka, Japan), Yuki Tokimoto (Fukuoka, Japan) and Tetsuya Hirakawa (Fukuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laminated iron core includes a laminated body including a plurality of laminated metal sheets. The laminated body includes a welded portion where an endmost metal sheet located at an endmost position in a lamination direction and the metal sheet in contact with the endmost metal sheet are welded. A welding end of the wel...