ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,167, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Thrust generator for rotorcraft" was invented by Ryuzaburo Kobayashi (Saitama, Japan) and Manabu Yazaki (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thrust generator for a rotorcraft includes: a support part conductively mounted to a conductive base provided in the rotorcraft; a rotor shaft rotatably and conductively supported by the support part; multiple rotating blades joined to the rotor shaft; and a drive unit mounted to the support part via a first electrically insulating part, wherein an output shaft of the drive unit is connected to the rotor shaft via...