US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Dec. 16 for "Motor drive device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,489, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Motor drive device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Tuan Manh Hoang (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor drive device includes a substrate, a motor drive portion, a feed pattern, a coil pattern, and a detection circuit. The feed pattern is formed on a first surface of the substrate. The coil pattern is formed on a second surface of the substrate and includes an overlapping portion formed in a region overlapping with the feed pattern and an adjacent portion formed in a region adjacent to the feed pattern. The detection ...