ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,403, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DELTA ELECTRONICS INC. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Rotor structure and rotor manufacturing method" was invented by Chia-Yen Chien (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Tzu-Ting Hsu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor structure includes a laminated silicon steel sheet structure, end plates, a shaft and a thermoset plastic key. Each silicon steel sheet includes a shaft hole and at least one sheet matching portion, and the sheet matching portion is connected to the shaft hole. The shaft passes through the shaft holes of the silicon steel sheets and the at least one shaft matching portions aligned with...