ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,478, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Rotator" was invented by Yuichiro Nakamura (Tokyo), Atsushi Kinoshita (Tokyo) and Hideaki Arita (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotator includes: a motor; and a brake that brakes the motor. The brake includes: a rotating plate that rotates with rotation of a shaft; a slide plate provided such that the slide plate can be slid in an axial direction of an axis of rotation of the motor in such a way as to approach and move away from the rotating plate; a spring that biases the slide plate toward the rotating plate; and an electromagnet capable of attracti...