US Patent Issued to AISIN on April 22 for "Rotor for rotary electric machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,848, issued on April 22, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Rotor for rotary electric machine" was invented by Naoto Saito (Kariya, Japan), Ami Iijima (Kariya, Japan) and Teppei Tsuda (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The rotor includes: rotor core provided with first magnet hole on an outer side in radial direction and second magnet hole on inner side wherein radial direction for each of the magnetic poles; and plurality of permanent magnets provided in first and second magnet holes and forming magnetic poles. Rotor core includes first section provided radially outside of first magnet hole, second section exten...