ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,522, issued on March 18, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).
"Motor" was invented by Makoto Otsuka (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor of the present invention includes a rotation shaft, blades provided at the rotation shaft, a holder having tubular members, a rotor, and a stator opposing the rotor in a radial direction of the rotor. The stator is fixed to the tubular members, the stator includes a magnetic body, a coil and a resin member, a part of the resin member enters into between windings of the coil, another part of the resin member forms a side surface of the stator, and another part of th...