US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on March 11 for "Motor-integrated fluid machine and vertical take-off and landing aircraft" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,842, issued on March 11, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Motor-integrated fluid machine and vertical take-off and landing aircraft" was invented by Osamu Uruma (Tokyo), Toshihide Yajima (Tokyo), Naoaki Fujiwara (Tokyo) and Takeshi Katayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor-integrated fan 1 including one or more motors integrated therein comprises: a shaft part 11 which serves as a supporting system disposed at the center of a rotational axis; a rotation part 12 which is a rotating system rotating about the shaft part 11; a duct 13 which serves as a supporting system provided on the outer periph...