ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,029, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to MITSUBA Corp. (Gunma, Japan).

"Insulator, stator and electric motor" was invented by Koji Yonekawa (Gunma, Japan), Takeshi Kanai (Gunma, Japan), Ryo Ohori (Gunma, Japan) and Yukari Otsuka (Gunma, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insulator attached to a core body in an annular shape and multiple teeth protruding from the core body along a radial direction for insulating the teeth and a coil wound around the teeth includes: a tooth end surface covering part covering an axial end surface of the tooth. The tooth end surface covering part includes: an inclined part provided on a front surface...