ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,016, issued on June 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Stator and method of manufacturing stator" was invented by Keita Miyashita (Tokyo), Hideki Shigematsu (Tokyo), Yasuyuki Kimura (Tokyo) and Yuichi Hosoda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stator includes a stator core having a plurality of slots, and a plurality of segment coils, each of which has an insulating film, the plurality of segment coils each including an inclined portion and a rising portion. the rising portions that are adjacent to each other in a radial direction of the stator core being joined to each other. Each of the plurality of segment coils ...