US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 3 for "Terminal block structure for stator of electric motor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,461, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Terminal block structure for stator of electric motor" was invented by Keita Imai (Seto, Japan), Kiichi Yokoyama (Toyota, Japan), Hiroki Monji (Toyota, Japan), Yusuke Ueta (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Tatsuya Sakai (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric motor disclosed herein includes a stator core, a coil wound around the stator core, a terminal block, and a bus bar. The terminal block is disposed so as to face a side face of the stator core. The bus bar is connected to a lead wire of the coil, and is also fixed to the terminal block. The bus...