US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 13 for "Rotor for electric motor and method for manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,832, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Rotor for electric motor and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Kento Omura (Nagakute, Japan), Shunsuke Kawasaki (Toyota, Japan) and Kenta Chimata (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor for an electric motor may include a shaft extending along a rotation axis of the electric motor and a rotor core comprising a plurality of core blocks fixed to the shaft and arranged along the rotation axis. The plurality of core blocks may include a first core block and a second core block that are oriented differently from each other in a cir...