US Patent Issued to NTN on Oct. 7 for "Bearing device and electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,759, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NTN Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Bearing device and electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft" was invented by Takashi Koike (Iwata, Japan) and Yusuke Shibuya (Iwata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first seal and a second seal seal an annular space between an outer ring and an inner ring by sandwiching a retainer. A stator including a coil is supported by the first seal and is opposed to a magnetic ring. A sensor, a wireless communication circuit, and a power supply circuit are supported by the second seal. A wire electrically connects the coil and the power supply circuit. The wire inclu...