US Patent Issued to NIDEC on Sept. 15 for "Motor" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,784, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NIDEC Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Motor" was invented by Hsiu-Ying Lin (Taipei City, Taiwan), Guo-Jhih Yan (Taipei City, Taiwan), Keng-Chang Wu (Taipei City, Taiwan), Kuo-Min Wang (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Sheng-Tse Wu (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor includes a rotor rotatable about a central axis, and a stator located on one axial side of the rotor. The rotor includes a plurality of side magnets whose magnetization direction is a circumferential direction and that are arranged in the circumferential direction, and a plurality of core pieces disposed between the side ma...