US Patent Issued to NTN on July 1 for "Magnet holder and magnet unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,286, issued on July 1, was assigned to NTN Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Magnet holder and magnet unit" was invented by Shouhei Suzuki (Aichi, Japan), Toshihiro Takakusu (Mie, Japan) and Daisuke Takeda (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a magnet holder 4 including: a shaft attachment portion 41 to which a shaft 2 is press-fitted and fixed; and a magnet holding portion 42 that is provided on one side in an axial direction of the shaft attachment portion 41 and holds a periphery of a magnet 5, and provided with an undercut portion 50 that engages with the magnet 5 in the axial direction on an inner peripheral surface 43 of the mag...