ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,279, issued on July 8, was assigned to IWAKI Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Rotary drive device and pump" was invented by Toshiki Oniduka (Iruma-gun, Japan), Shinichirou Koreeda (Iruma-gun, Japan), Toshiaki Kamei (Sayama, Japan), Hikaru Saitou (Iruma-gun, Japan), Masaya Ueno (Iruma-gun, Japan) and Takuya Seki (Sayama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor, a magnetic bearing, and a drive unit that rotationally drives the rotor. The magnetic bearing includes a bearing stator and a ring-shaped bearing rotor member. The drive unit has a drive stator and a ring-shaped drive rotor member. The bearing stator has a plurality of bearing stator cor...