US Patent Issued to Nidec Motor on May 13 for "Motor encoder assembly providing optimized sensor alignment" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,066, issued on May 13, was assigned to Nidec Motor Corp. (St. Louis).

"Motor encoder assembly providing optimized sensor alignment" was invented by John M. Tucker (St. Louis) and Jeffrey M. Hutsler (Troy, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric motor includes a stator, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, a housing, and an encoder assembly. The housing defines a motor chamber in which the stator and rotor are at least partly housed. The housing includes an endshield that defines in part the motor chamber. The encoder assembly is configured to sense an operational parameter of the motor and includes an encoder and an encod...