US Patent Issued to AISIN, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on Sept. 30 for "Stator manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,775, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Stator manufacturing method" was invented by Hiroyuki Ono (Kariya, Japan), Kei Enohata (Kariya, Japan), Hideharu Ushida (Kariya, Japan), Masaya Nakamura (Kariya, Japan), Masanari Nishida (Kariya, Japan), Fei Tang (Toyota, Japan) and Tetsuya Sugimoto (Chiryu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This method of manufacturing a stator includes a step of removing insulating coatings on first surfaces of lead wire portions that are surfaces to be welded, and a step of welding together the first surfa...