ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,390, issued on June 24, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Stator of electric motor and manufacturing method for stator of electric motor" was invented by Keiji Kawahara (Hitachinaka, Japan), Masato Higuma (Hitachinaka, Japan), Yasuhiko Kimura (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Kenichi Nakayama (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to suppress variations in an angle of a shoulder part of a segment coil to improve easiness in inserting segment coils in a stator core.A stator of an electric motor according to the present invention includes a stator core 12 in which a plur...