US Patent Issued to NIDEC on June 2 for "Rotary electric machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,008, issued on June 2, was assigned to NIDEC Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Rotary electric machine" was invented by Ryoma Sasaki (Kyoto, Japan), Kentaro Hirose (Kyoto, Japan) and Shigeru Maeda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary electric machine includes: a rotor having a shaft extending in an axial direction and rotor magnets arranged along a circumferential direction; a stator having a coil and surrounding the rotor; a housing supporting the stator; a pair of magnetic bearings on opposite sides in the axial direction of the rotor magnet; and a position adjusting member held by the housing. The stator holds the rotor rotat...