ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,412, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NIDEC POWERTRAIN SYSTEMS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Motor and pump" was invented by Shigehiro Kataoka (Zama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor assembly includes a rotor rotatable about a central axis and a stator radially opposing the rotor with a gap interposed therebetween, a circuit board on a first side in an axial direction from the motor assembly, and a connection terminal electrically connecting the stator and the circuit board. The stator includes a stator core, an insulating portion attached to the stator core to hold the connection terminal, and a coil portion including a co...