US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 6 for "Motor having a plurality of first magnets and a plurality of second magnets arranged in a halbach arrangement" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,245, issued on May 6, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Motor having a plurality of first magnets and a plurality of second magnets arranged in a halbach arrangement" was invented by Yoshihiro Okumatsu (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor according to the present disclosure includes a rotor. The rotor includes a plurality of first magnets arranged in a Halbach arrangement in a circumferential direction of the rotor, and a second magnet. The plurality of first magnets and the second magnets are arranged alternately and adjacent to each other. The second magnet is longer in the circumferential direc...