ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,181, issued on March 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Motor" was invented by Reimi Sakaguchi (Nisshin, Japan), Daisuke Ichigozaki (Toyota, Japan) and Masaaki Ito (Anjo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a motor capable of increasing a torque while suppressing an increase in the physical size of the motor. A motor includes a rotor. The rotor includes pairs of magnet slots evenly spaced in a circumferential direction, each pair of magnet slots being arranged in a V-shape, pairs of main magnets housed in the pairs of magnet slots, and a plurality of auxiliary magnets including an outer magnet house...