ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,043, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Rotating electric machine" was invented by Takayuki Koizumi (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Kiyoshi Ito (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The rotating electric machine comprises: a stator core that has a first stator core portion and a second stator core portion, and an air gap portion, the first and the second stator core portions having slots and being divided in the axial direction, the air gap portion being formed between the first stator core portion and the second stator core portion by making the first stator core portion and the secon...