ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,317, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY LTD. (Takahashi, Japan).

"Core piece, stator core, stator, rotary electric machine, and method for producing core piece" was invented by Tatsuya Saito (Osaka, Japan), Tomoyuki Ueno (Osaka, Japan) and Tomoyuki Ishimine (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A core piece includes a first member in a column form and a second member in a plate form, the first member and the second member being configured by a green compact in which the first member and the second member are integrally formed, the green compa...