ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,839, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NIDEC Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Axial flux motor" was invented by Keng-Chang Wu (Taipei, Taiwan), Guo-Jhih Yan (Taipei, Taiwan), Hsiu-Ying Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Kuo-Min Wang (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An axial flux motor includes a rotor assembly and a stator assembly. The rotor assembly has magnets. The stator assembly has a circuit substrate, segmented iron cores, and a coil. The circuit substrate extends radially. The segmented iron cores are supported on the circuit substrate to be opposite to the magnet in the axial direction. Segmented iron cores arranged in the circum...