ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,461, issued on July 14, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Pinion-equipped motor and gear mechanism provided with pinion-equipped motor" was invented by Takuya Aritani (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention can provide a pinion-equipped motor that has a shaft provided with a pinion having a perfect tooth shape portion functioning as a gear, wherein to shorten the length of the pinion in the axial direction, the perfect tooth shape portion of the pinion can be offset to the proximal side of the shaft. In this pinion-equipped motor that has a shaft provided with a pinion on the distal side,...