ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,477, issued on June 23, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Method of manufacturing motor and motor" was invented by Yoshitaka Furuta (Tokyo) and Akihito Katsume (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a motor includes accommodating a stator in a case; inserting a fixing member having a rod shape into a circular ring of a collar member and a through hole formed in the stator, the collar member including the circular ring formed in an annular shape and a claw extending in a radial direction of the circular ring; positioning the stator relative to the case by bringing a tip of the claw into contact with an in...