US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY on May 13 for "Core piece, stator core, stator, and rotary electric machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,055, issued on May 13, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY LTD. (Takahashi, Japan).

"Core piece, stator core, stator, and rotary electric machine" was invented by Tatsuya Saito (Osaka, Japan) and Tomoyuki Ueno (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A core piece that is circularly arranged to construct a stator core of an axial gap type rotary electric machine includes: a first member in a column form extending in an axial direction of the stator core; a second member in a plate form disposed on a first end side of the axial direction in the first member; and a th...