ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,424, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Inverter-integrated motor" was invented by Masaya Nakajima (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiyuki Sakai (Kanagawa, Japan), Seiichi Sato (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kouki Matsumura (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter unit at an end portion of a motor in a rotation shaft direction, the motor includes a conductive member electrically connected to the inverter unit, the inverter unit includes a control component connected to the conductive member and configured to control driving of the motor, the conductive member extends from the end portion of th...