US Patent Issued to MINEBEA MITSUMI on Nov. 4 for "Rotating device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,516, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Rotating device" was invented by Hitoshi Iwata (Nagano, Japan), Tsuyoshi Kano (Nagano, Japan), Naoki Ohsawa (Nagano, Japan), Shoma Yamanishi (Nagano, Japan), Toshiyuki Nishikata (Nagano, Japan), Seiji Mitamura (Nagano, Japan), Michihiro Shimizu (Nagano, Japan) and Yuta Amagi (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotating body is shorter in radial direction than in axial direction. The inner circumferential surfaces of a first bearing and a second bearing are fixed at an outer circumferential surface of the shaft member. In the axial direction, the ...