US Patent Issued to NIDEC on May 27 for "Method of manufacturing rotor and method of manufacturing motor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,173, issued on May 27, was assigned to NIDEC Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method of manufacturing rotor and method of manufacturing motor" was invented by Junya Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan) and Tomoya Ueda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of a method of manufacturing a rotor of the present invention is the method of manufacturing the rotor, which includes a rotor core rotatable about a central axis and a rotor magnet fixed to an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core, the method including a magnetization step of magnetizing a first magnetic member fixed to the outer peripheral surface of the rotor core to form the rotor...