US Patent Issued to ISHIKAWA ENERGY RESEARCH on July 22 for "Power unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,199, issued on July 22, was assigned to ISHIKAWA ENERGY RESEARCH Co. LTD. (Ota, Japan).

"Power unit" was invented by Mitsuru Ishikawa (Ota, Japan) and Masakazu Yamazaki (Ota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a power unit that allows a stator and a rotor of an axial flux power generator forming the power unit to be brought closer to each other in a simple configuration. An engine 11 of the power unit 10 includes an engine-side shaft 15 configured to output a drive force by rotating about a rotational axis 14. The axial flux power generator 12 includes a stator 16, a first rotor 17 rotatably arranged on one side of the ...