US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 1 for "Magnet arrangement method and rotor manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,086, issued on July 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Magnet arrangement method and rotor manufacturing method" was invented by Kazuhiro Sato (Toyota, Japan) and Kei Ohta (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnet arrangement method capable of easily assembling magnets is provided. A magnet arrangement method according to one aspect of the present invention is a magnet arrangement method for arranging a plurality of magnetized magnets in a Halbach array, the method comprising: a process of forming a first magnet group by combining magnets in such a way that a direction of a magnetic force that acts o...