MUMBAI, India, June 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202414091823 A) filed by Daido Metal Company Ltd., Nagoya, Japan, on Nov. 25, 2024, for 'bearing device for crankshaft of internal combustion engine.'

Inventor(s) include Sato Tatsuki; and Maitani Shinya.

The application for the patent was published on June 20, under issue no. 25/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "In a bearing device for a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, an outer circumferential surface of each split bearing in a non-mounted state is made up of first and second curved surfaces (81, 82) formed along two types of arcs with different curvatures. In a mounted state, respective circ...