ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,243, issued on May 6, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Rotating electric machine" was invented by Hidenori Sasaki (Tokyo), Kenta Motoyoshi (Tokyo), Shohei Fujikura (Tokyo), Hiroko Ikeda (Tokyo) and Koji Kawamura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets. The rotor core includes a plurality of core portions. The rotor core includes an annular portion and a plurality of coupling portions. Each of the plurality of coupling portions couples the annular portion and a first core portion of each of t...