US Patent Issued to DENSO on May 6 for "Rotating electric machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,262, issued on May 6, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Rotating electric machine" was invented by Toshiaki Uga (Kariya, Japan), Hiroshi Kaneiwa (Kariya, Japan), Akihito Koike (Kariya, Japan), Masayoshi Yamamoto (Kariya, Japan), Kazuya Enokizono (Kariya, Japan) and Hiroshi Endo (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a rotating electric machine, an armature winding includes segmented conductors that include a coil side portion, housed in slots of the armature, and a coil end portion protruding from an armature core on both sides in an axial direction. The coil side portions are housed in the slots so as to form 2...