US Patent Issued to NITTA, Honda Motor on Nov. 3 for "Rotary member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,471, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NITTA Corp. (Osaka, Japan) and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Rotary member" was invented by Maki Onizuka (Osaka, Japan), Takuji Komukai (Osaka, Japan), Kaoru Tomioka (Saitama, Japan), Yuji Ono (Saitama, Japan) and Koji Ueda (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary member is a carbon fiber-reinforced molded article in which a carbon fiber is embedded in a matrix resin, and is a rotary member that rotates integrally with a rotary body of an electric motor or a generator. The rotary member includes a helical layer in which a composite carbon fiber is oriented at an inclination angle ...