ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,749, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to NIDEC Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Motor unit" was invented by Takashi Hattori (Kyoto, Japan), Toshiya Okamoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Daiki Kato (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor assembly includes a motor, a controller on one side in an axial direction of the motor, and a motor cover between the motor and the controller in the axial direction. The controller includes a screw. The screw includes a head portion located on one side in the axial direction of the motor cover and a screw portion extending from the head portion to the one side in the axial direction. The motor cover opposes t...