US Patent Issued to Honda Motor, STARLITE, NIDEC DRIVE TECHNOLOGY on July 14 for "Driving force transmission device and rotary mechanism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,136, issued on July 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo), STARLITE Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) and NIDEC DRIVE TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Driving force transmission device and rotary mechanism" was invented by Taihei Tsubone (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Norio Deguchi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Wataru Yada (Tokyo), Ritsuya Oshima (Tokyo), Tsutomu Yoshino (Tokyo) and Tadanori Hatta (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving force transmission device includes drive rollers, roller support portions, and a roller arrangement portion. The drive rollers transmit a driving force to a main wheel. The roller support portions rotat...