US Patent Issued to TOP, FUKUI PREFECTURAL GOVERNMENT on March 3 for "Coil and rotary machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,777, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOP Co. LTD. (Japan) and FUKUI PREFECTURAL GOVERNMENT (Japan).

"Coil and rotary machine" was invented by Kenji Sasaki (Fukui, Japan), Hitoshi Otaki (Fukui, Japan), Yoshinori Sasaki (Fukui, Japan), Taiki Tanaka (Fukui, Japan) and Tomoya Okahashi (Fukui, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil includes a first coil layer and a second coil layer which is formed by winding a rectangular conductor. A side surface of the second coil layer contacts a side surface of the first coil layer in a second direction that is perpendicular to a radial first direction where the rectangular conductor overlaps...