US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 12 for "Rotor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,186, issued on May 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Rotor" was invented by Hironori Asaoka (Okazaki, Japan), Hideaki Miyazono (Kasugai, Japan), Hiroki Kato (Toyota, Japan), Fumiaki Yamato (Okazaki, Japan) and Kiichi Yokoyama (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teachings provide a rotor. The rotor 10 may comprise: a shaft 12; a rotor core 20; a first end plate 50; and a second end plate 52. Rotor core 20 may comprise a first flow path 22a which allows the coolant to flow from the one side to the other side of the axial direction and a second flow path 22d which allows the coolant to flow f...