US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 11 for "Rotor, rotary machine, and method for manufacturing rotor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,872, issued on March 11, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Rotor, rotary machine, and method for manufacturing rotor" was invented by Yuji Ono (Saitama, Japan), Kaoru Tomioka (Saitama, Japan), Keiji Tada (Saitama, Japan) and Koji Ueda (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first layer, a second layer, and a third layer of a sleeve of a rotor are integrated side by side in this order from the radial center of the sleeve toward the outside. The first layer includes a first fiber-reinforced resin including a first carbon fiber extending in a direction inclined with respect to both the axis of the rotor shaft and ...