ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,422, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Coil alignment device and coil alignment method" was invented by Akihito Mori (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Yasuda (Tokyo), Kota Hirohashi (Tokyo), Masahiro Yuya (Tokyo), Shunsuke Yamamoto (Tokyo), Kyosuke Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Tetsuya Yokogawa (Tokyo) and Katsuya Ito (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil alignment device includes: a plate-shaped first jig having a plurality of grooves arranged along a circumferential direction so as to extend toward a radial-direction outer side; and a second jig that can contact with a segment coil inserted in the first jig. Each gro...