ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,961, issued on April 21, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Wheel and method for making wheel" was invented by Wataru Yada (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel (3) includes a core member (32) consisting of a tubular member (140) formed with a plurality of V-shaped notches (142) on one side thereof, and bent into an annular shape so as to close the notches, and a plurality of free rollers (60) each rotatably fitted on a linear section (120) of the tubular member located between a mutually adjoining pair of the V-shaped notches via a bearing (122) provided with an inner race (124) and an outer race (126),...