ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,329, issued on July 8.
"Rotary machine with electric motor and inverter" was invented by Shun Nakayama (Tokyo), Koji Sakota (Tokyo) and Yuji Sasaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary machine includes an electric motor including a rotor and a stator, a rotary shaft to be rotated by driving the electric motor, an impeller attached to the rotary shaft, an inverter that controls the electric motor, and a plurality of lead wires that exit from the stator and connected to the inverter. The stator includes an inner periphery facing the rotor, and an outer periphery opposite the inner periphery, and the inverter is located in a ci...