ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,246, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Magnetizing method and magnetizing apparatus" was invented by Toshitaka Kato (Wako, Japan), Shinji Nemoto (Wako, Japan) and Tokio Taira (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetizing method applies, to a rotor including a plurality of magnetic bodies that are arranged in the circumferential direction of the rotor and are to be magnetized, a magnetic field in a radial direction of the rotor to magnetize the magnetic bodies. The magnetizing method includes a step of arranging a magnetizing coil near the outer peripheral portion of the plurality of magneti...