US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Sumitomo Electric Industries on Feb. 24 for "Pump assembly with the pump disposed within the plurality of teeth of the motor stator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,166, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy Ltd. (Takahashi, Japan) and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Pump assembly with the pump disposed within the plurality of teeth of the motor stator" was invented by Shoichi Takada (Takahashi, Japan), Kentaro Yoshida (Takahashi, Japan), Tatsuya Saito (Osaka, Japan) and Tomoyuki Ueno (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pump assembly includes an axial gap motor including a first stator, a motor rotor and a motor shaft, and a first pump including a first pump rotor configured to be rotated by the motor rotor. The first stator includes a ...