US Patent Issued to Proterial, Hitachi Astemo on May 13 for "Conductive wire, welding method, and method for manufacturing rotating electrical machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,074, issued on May 13, was assigned to Proterial Ltd. (Tokyo) and Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Conductive wire, welding method, and method for manufacturing rotating electrical machine" was invented by Noriyuki Takahashi (Tokyo) and Teruaki Nakashima (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conductive wire includes an angled protrusion having a tapered shape being integrated with a wire-shaped main body and configured to generate an arc between itself and an arc welding electrode. At least one of the pair of conductive members comprises an angled protrusion having a tapered shape. Welding of the conductive members i...