ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,167, issued on June 30, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Motion conversion device and power generation device including the same" was invented by Hiroshi Isono (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a motion conversion device that can properly support a load acting axially on a planetary gear unevenly. A radius of a ring gear being a stationary internal gear is twice a radius of the planetary gear that rotates integrally with a crank member. A first planetary bearing and a second planetary bearing that support the planetary gear relative to a carrier are respectively disposed on one side and another si...