ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,226, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Magnetizing apparatus and magnetizing method" 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 apparatus includes a holding member including a rotor fixing portion for holding a rotor, a coil member including a support plate that is thin plate-shaped and a coil that is incorporated inside the support plate, and a coil fixing portion that is provided to the holding member and arranges and fixes a plurality of coil members radially with respect to the center of the r...