US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Jan. 13 for "Rotor and electric motor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,834, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Rotor and electric motor" was invented by Akira Yamaguchi (Fukui, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor includes a rotating shaft including an axis as a rotation center, a magnet having a cylindrical shape and disposed so as to surround the rotating shaft, and a spacer that is disposed between the rotating shaft and the magnet, includes a sleeve extending from a first end portion to a second end portion along the axis, and fixes the magnet to the rotating shaft via the sleeve."

The patent was filed on April 21, 2022, u...