US Patent Issued to NIDEC on June 3 for "Motor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,035, issued on June 3, was assigned to NIDEC Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Motor" was invented by Toshiya Okamoto (Kyoto, Japan), Takashi Hattori (Kyoto, Japan) and Shuji Iwasaki (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor includes a rotor, a stator, a bearing, a motor housing, a bearing holder, a bus bar assembly, and a circuit board. The bearing holder holds the bearing to cover the opening of the motor housing, and includes a holder protrusion. The holder protrusion is located radially outside the motor housing and includes an axially penetrating terminal through hole. The bus bar assembly includes a bus bar terminal and a bus ba...