ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,773, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Method for manufacturing unit coil for stator of rotary electric machine, device for manufacturing unit coil for stator of rotary electric machine, rotary electric machine, and method for manufacturing a rotary electric machine" was invented by Yutaka Hirota (Tokyo), Tadashi Maeda (Tokyo) and Takeshi Yagi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The unit coil is formed by: bending the coil end portions of the intermediate body such that, in a layer in which a length in an axial direction between the coil end portions is large, positions of the coil end portion...