ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,502, issued on March 18, was assigned to NIDEC TOSOK Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Rotary electric machine and pump" was invented by Shigehiro Kataoka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshiyuki Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary electric machine includes a rotor, a stator having a coil, a substrate electrically connected to the coil, a bus bar assembly having a bus bar electrically connecting the coil and the substrate, and a housing having a stator housing portion accommodating the stator and a substrate housing portion accommodating the substrate. The substrate housing portion is radially outside the stator housin...