US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Dec. 30 for "Balancer device for internal combustion engine and balancer device with oil pump" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,007, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Balancer device for internal combustion engine and balancer device with oil pump" was invented by Masatoshi Matsuo (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Masafumi Kurita (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a balancer device for an internal combustion engine, which includes: an upper-side housing to be mounted to an internal combustion engine; a lower-side housing fixed to the upper-side housing; a balancer main body accommodated in a space defined by the upper-side housing and the lower-side housing; and an oil pump fixed at least to the u...