US Patent Issued to NIDEC on June 23 for "Synchronous reluctance motor" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,479, issued on June 23, was assigned to NIDEC Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Synchronous reluctance motor" was invented by Yu-Wei Hsu (Taipei City, Taiwan), Sheng-Chan Yen (Taipei City, Taiwan), Guo-Jhih Yan (Taipei, Taiwan) and Cheng-Tsung Liu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synchronous reluctance motor includes a rotor having a rotor iron core and a stator having pole teeth. The rotor iron core defines multiple magnetic poles. A magnetic barrier area is defined between adjacent magnetic poles in a circumferential direction, and a conductor area is located at a radially outer side of the magnetic barrier area. The magnet...