ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,757, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).

"Electric work machine with stator having insulator with first cover and ribs supporting wire" was invented by Yusuke Ichioka (Anjo, Japan) and Junya Inuzuka (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric work machine includes coils formed reliably. The machine includes a stator, a rotor rotatable about a rotation axis, and an output unit drivable by the rotor. The stator includes a stator core including a cylindrical yoke and teeth protruding radially outward from the yoke, an insulator fixed to the stator core, and coils each wound around a corresponding...