US Patent Issued to Nidec Motor on Oct. 28 for "Electric motor having high strength rotor with ring magnet" (Indiana, New York, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,892, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Nidec Motor Corp. (St. Louis).

"Electric motor having high strength rotor with ring magnet" was invented by Bruce Ley (Ossian, Ind.), Michael Coles (Manlius, N.Y.), Hunter Gill (Uniontown, Ohio), Mike Alivero (Syracuse, N.Y.), Joe Engle (Uniontown, Ohio), Kyle Chesnut (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Tillian Jones (Syracuse, N.Y.) and Jeremy Beck (Fort Wayne, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric motor includes a stator and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator. The rotor includes an axial shaft, a disc projecting radially from the shaft, and a ring magnet affixed to the disc. The shaft and the...