US Patent Issued to Nidec on March 17 for "Motor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,442, issued on March 17, was assigned to Nidec Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Motor" was invented by Junya Mizukami (Kyoto, Japan) and Shinya Kuramoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor includes a holder, a rotor inside the holder with a shaft rotatable about a central axis, first and second bearings rotatably supporting the shaft, and a stator radially outside the holder. The holder includes a first holder, and a second holder extending upward from an upper end of the first holder. The stator is fixed to an outer peripheral surface of the first holder, and an outer ring of the first bearing is fixed to a lower end of an i...