ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,724, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MITSUBA Corp. (Gunma, Japan).
"Motor device" was invented by Naoki Ogata (Gunma, Japan), Yutaro Jo (Gunma, Japan) and Daiki Yamamoto (Gunma, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a motor device, since the bearing support member mounted to the housing and supporting, from the axial direction, the another axial side of the ball bearing (outer race) includes the annular support part (annular flat surface) which supports, from the axial direction, the entire circumference of the another axial side of the ball bearing (outer race), tilting of the ball bearing with respect to the housing can be sup...