US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Aug. 26 for "Rotary electric machine including rotor with skew and stator in which top width of teeth is set based on skew angle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,240, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Rotary electric machine including rotor with skew and stator in which top width of teeth is set based on skew angle" was invented by Kodai Okazaki (Tokyo), Junji Kitao (Tokyo), Yoshihiro Miyama (Tokyo) and Kengo Kumagai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary electric machine comprises: a rotor which has a rotor core and permanent magnets arranged in the rotor core on its outer circumference side, and which is supported rotatably; and a stator which has a stator core having teeth projecting toward a radial center and arranged circumferentially, and whi...