MUMBAI, India, April 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202514081654 A) filed by Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi, Japan, on Aug. 28, 2025, for 'rotor manufacturing apparatus.'
Inventor(s) include Yuki Wakimoto; and Masaki Sugiyama.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A rotor manufacturing apparatus is configured to manufacture a rotor that includes a tubular rotor core having multiple slots, multiple magnets respectively accommodated in the slots, and multiple pieces of plastic fixing the magnets to the rotor core. The rotor manufacturing apparatus includes plungers configured to extrude the plastic toward the slots, and a drive unit configured to be movable toward and away from the rotor core. The drive unit includes accommodating portions and an urging section. The accommodating portions respectively receive the plungers such that the plungers are movable relative to the accommodating portions in a movement direction of the drive unit. The urging section urges the plungers in an extrusion direction of the plastic from inside the accommodating portions."
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