US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on April 1 for "Brushless motor and electrically-powered tool" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,986, issued on April 1, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Brushless motor and electrically-powered tool" was invented by Akito Nakamura (Osaka, Japan) and Kota Kitamura (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brushless motor is an inner rotor type brushless motor. The brushless motor includes a plurality of phase coils of multiple phases arranged around a rotation axis, and a plurality of terminals configured to connect the plurality of phase coils of multiple phases to a switching circuit. The plurality of terminals are located inside a circumscribed circle of the plurality of ...