US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 9 for "Motor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,935, issued on June 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Motor" was invented by Yukio Tsuchiya (Toyota, Japan), Yasuhiro Makido (Toyota, Japan), Yuichiro Kanada (Toyota, Japan), Shogo Kajimoto (Toyota, Japan) and Hideyuki Higashi (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor may include a rotor; a stator comprising a stator core and a coil; a housing that houses the rotor and the stator; and a first annular member that provides a seal between a first end face of the stator core in an axial direction of the stator core and an inner wall surface of the housing. The first annular member may include a pluralit...