ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,945, issued on June 9, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Electric motor" was invented by Yasuyuki Yokouchi (Osaka, Japan) and Akihiko Watanabe (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A discharge phenomenon of a bearing is detected with high accuracy. Electric motor (10) includes stator (11) including stator core (11a) with winding (11b) wound around stator core (11a), rotor (12) facing stator (11) and including rotating body (13) and shaft (14), first and second bearings (15a, 15b) that are a pair of bearings, first and second brackets (19a, 19b) that are a pair of brackets respe...